and employed on our behalf in such capture or captures, without reference to their respective ranks, and the share or shares so set apart for such Ally or Allies shall be transmitted to such persons as may be duly authorized on behalf of such Ally or Allies to receive the same.

Ships or vessels being in sight of the prize, as also of the captor, under circumstances to cause intimidation to the enemy and encouragement to the captor, shall be alone entitled to share as joint captors.

After having deducted the portion set apart as aforesaid for our Allies, a distribution, so far as regards Her Majesty's forces, shall be as follows:-The Flag Officer or Officers shall have one-twentieth part of the whole net proceeds arising from prizes captured from the enemy by any of the ships or vessels under his or their command, and of the rewards conferred for the same, according to the following conditions and modifications, save and except as hereinafter provided and directed: that is to say,

When there is but 1 Flag Officer he shall have the entire onetwentieth part; when 2 Flag Officers shall be sharing together, the chief shall have two-thirds, and the other Flag-Officer shall have the remaining one-third of the one-twentieth part; and when there shall be more than 2 Flag Officers, the chief shall have one-half of the said one-twentieth part, and the remaining half shall be equally divided among the junior Flag Officers; Commodores of the first class and Captains of the fleet to share as Flag officers: Provided always, that no Flag Officer, unless actually on board any of our ships or vessels of war, and at the actual taking, sinking, burning, or otherwise destroying any ship or ships of war, privateer or privateers, belonging to the enemy, shall share in the distribution of any head money or bounty money granted as a reward for taking, sinking, burning, or otherwise destroying any such ship or vessel of the enemy.

That no Flag Officer commanding in any port in the United Kingdom shall share in the proceeds of any prize captured from the enemy by any ship or vessel which shall sail from or leave such port by order of the Lord High Admiral, or of our Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral.

That when ships or vessels under the command of several Flag Officers belonging to separate stations shall be joint captors, each Flag Officer shall receive a proportion of the one-twentieth part, according to the number of officers and men present under the command of each such Flag Officer; and when any ship or vessel under orders from the Lord High Admiral, or from our Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, are joint captors with other ships or vessels under a flag or flags, the like regulations as to the apportionment of the flag share to the Flag Officer or Officers are to be observed.

With reference to Flag Officers, it is to be noted,

That when an inferior Flag Officer is sent to reinforce a superior officer on any station, the superior Flag Officer shall not share in any prize taken by the inferior Flag Officer before he has arrived. within the limits of that station, unless the inferior officer shall have received some order directly from and shall be acting in execution of some order issued by such superior Flag Officer.

No chief Flag Officer quitting any station, except upon some definite urgent service, and with the intention of returning to the station as soon as such service is performed, shall share in any prize taken by our ships or vessels left behind after he has passed the limits of the station, or after he has surrendered the command to another Flag Officer appointed by the Admiralty to command in chief upon such station.

An inferior Flag Officer quitting any station (except when detached by orders from his Commander-in-Chief upon a special service, accompanied with orders to return to such station as soon as the service has been performed) shall have no share in prizes taken by the ships and vessels remaining on the station after he has passed the limits thereof.

In like manner Flag Officers remaining on such station shall not share in the prizes taken by such inferior officer, or by ships or vessels under his immediate command, after he has quitted the limits of the station, except he has been detached as aforesaid.

A Commander-in-Chief or other Flag Officer belonging to any station shall not share in any prize or prizes taken out of the limits of that station by any ship or vessel under the command of a Flag Officer of any other station, or under orders from our Commissioners of the Admiralty, unless such Commander-in-Chief or Flag Officer is expressly authorized by our said Commissioners to take the command of that station in which the prize or prizes is or are taken, and shall actually have taken upon him such command.

Every Commodore having a Captain under him shall be esteemed a Flag Officer with respect to the twentieth part of prizes taken, whether he be commanding in chief or serving under command.

The first Captain to the Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of our fleet, and also the first Captain to any Flag Officer appointed to command a fleet of 10 ships of the line or upwards, shall be deemed to be a Flag Officer for the purpose of sharing in prize, and shall be entitled to share therein as the junior Flag Officer of such fleet.

Any officer on board any of our ships of war at the time of capturing any prize or prizes who shall have more commissions than one shall be entitled only to share in such prize or prizes according to the share allotted to him by the above-mentioned distribution in respect to his superior commission or office.

And with reference to other officers it is to be noted, that a Captain, Commander, or other commanding officer of a ship or vessel, shall be deemed to be under the command of a flag when he shall have received some order from, or be acting in the execution of some order issued by, a Flag Officer, whether he be or be not within the limits of the station of such Flag Officer; and in the event of his being directed to join a Flag Officer on any station, he shall be deemed to be under the command of such Flag Officer from the time when he arrives within the limits of the station, which circumstance is always to be carefully noted in the log-book; and it shall be considered that he continues under the Flag Officer of such station until he shall have received some order directly from, or be acting in the execution of some order issued by, some other Flag Officer, duly authorized, or by the Lord High Admiral, or our Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral.

And we hereby direct, that the Captain, Commander, Lieutenant commanding, Master commanding, or any other officer duly commanding any ship, sloop, or vessel of war singly taking any prize from the enemy, that is to say, the officer actually in command at the time, shall have one-eighth of the remainder, or if there is no flag one-eighth of the entire net proceeds, except that if the single capturing ship be a rated ship having a Commander under the Captain, the Commander shall take a portion of the one-eighth part as if he were commander of a sloop, according to the proportion hereinafter set forth; and if more than one commanding officer of the same rank of command shall be entitled to share as joint captors, the oneeighth shall be equally divided between them; but when Captains, Commanders, Lieutenants commanding, and Masters commanding, respectively, our ships and vessels of war, and Commanders under Captains in rated ships, shall share together, in whatever variety of combination, the one-eighth shall be so divided into parts for a graduated apportionment as to provide for each Captain receiving 6 parts; each Commander of a sloop, or Commander under a Captain in a rated ship, 3 parts; and each Lieutenant commanding, or Master commanding, or other officer actually commanding a small vessel of war, 2 parts; which we hereby direct shall be the proportion in which they shall respectively share; Commodores of the second class, and field officers of Marines or of land forces serving as Marines, doing duty as field officers, above the rank of Major, to share as Captains, and field officers of Marines or of land forces serving as, Marines, and doing duty in the rank of Major, to share as Commanders of sloops.

And we further direct, that after provision shall thus have been made for the flag share (if any), and for the portion of the commanding officer or officers and others as above specified, the re

mainder of the net proceeds shall be distributed in 10 classes, so that each officer, man, and boy composing the rest of the complements of our ships, sloops, and vessels of war, and actually on board at the time of any such capture, and every person present and assisting, shall receive shares or a share according to his class, as set forth in the following scale:

First Class: Master of the fleet, inspector of steam machinery afloat when embarked with a fleet, medical inspector or deputy medical inspector when embarked with a fleet, 45 shares each.

Second Class: Senior lieutenant of a rated ship, not bearing a commander under the captain, secretary to the admiral of the fleet or admiral commanding in chief, 35 shares each.

Third Class: Sea lieutenant, master, captain of marines, of marine artillery, or of land forces doing duty as marines, whether having higher brevet rank or not, secretary to an admiral or to a commodore of the first class not commanding in chief, chief engineer, 28 shares each.

Fourth Class: Lieutenant or quartermaster of marines, lieutenant of marine artillery, lieutenant, quartermaster, or ensign of land forces doing duty as marines, secretary to a commodore of the second class, chaplain, surgeon, paymaster, naval instructor, mate, assistant-surgeon, second master, clerk in charge, passed clerk, assistant-engineer, gunner, boatswain, carpenter, 18 shares each.

Fifth Class Midshipman, master's assistant, pilot, clerk (not passed), master-at-arms, chief gunner's mate, chief boatswain's mate, chief carpenter's mate, chief captain of the forecastle, admiral's coxswain, chief quartermaster, seaman's schoolmaster, ship's steward, ship's cook, 10 shares each.

Sixth Class: Naval cadet, clerk's assistant, captain's coxswain, ship's corporal, quartermaster, gunner's mate, boatswain's mate, captain of the forecastle, captain of the afterguard, captain of the hold, captain of the main-top, captain of the fore-top, coxswain of the launch, sailmaker, ropemaker, caulker, leading stoker, blacksmith, serjeant of marines, of marine artillery, or of land forces doing duty as marines, 9 shares each.

Seventh Class: Captain of the mast, captain of the mizen-top, yeoman of the signals, coxswain of the barge, coxswain of the pinnace, coxswain of the cutter, second captain of the forecastle, second captain of the maintop, second captain of the foretop, second captain of the afterguard, sailmaker's mate, caulker's mate, musician, cooper, armourer, corporal of marines or of land forces doing duty as marines, bombardier of marine artillery, head krooman, 6 shares each.

Eighth Class: Leading seamen, shipwright, second captain of the hold, able seamen, carpenter's crew, sailmaker's crew, cooper's crew,

armourer's crew, yeoman of the store-rooms, steward's assistant, ordinary seamen, blacksmith's mate, private and fifer of marines or of land forces doing duty as marines, gunner of marine artillery, painter, stoker, coal trimmer, second head krooman, sick-berth attendant, bandsman, tailor, butcher, 3 shares each.

Ninth Class: Cook's mate, ship's steward's boy, admiral's domestic, superintendent's domestic, admiral's steward and cook, captain's steward and cook, ward-room and gun-room steward and cook, subordinate officers' steward and cook, commander's servant, secretary's servant, second class ordinary seamen, assistant stoker, barber, boy of the first class, first and second class krooman, supernumeraries, except as hereinafter provided, persons borne merely as passengers and not declining to render assistance on occasion of capture, 2 shares each.

Tenth Class: Boy below first class, 1 share.

All supernumeraries holding ranks in the service above the ranks or ratings specified in the fifth class of this our Proclamation who have been ordered to do duty in any of our ships or vessels by the Lord High Admiral, or by our Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, by the senior officer of the fleet or squadron, or if none senior then by the captain or commanding officer of the capturing ship or vessel, if not by special authority employed in higher capacities, shall share according to the rank which they respectively hold in the service; but in all cases, to qualify them for so sharing, and not merely as supernumeraries in the ninth class, due notation of their being thus respectively ordered to do duty must have been made on the muster books.

And with respect to supernumeraries of ratings in the service below the denominations of those specified in the fourth class of this our Proclamation, and who at full victuals are engaged in the ordinary duties of the ship, it is our will and pleasure that they shall always share according to the ratings which they bear in the service.

And in order that our royal intentions herein may be duly carried into effect, we further direct, that when any capture is made from the enemy, the captains or commanding officers of our ships or vessels of war making the same shall transmit or cause to be transmitted, as soon as may be, to the Secretary to the Admiralty, a true and perfect list of all the officers, seamen and marines, soldiers, and others, who were actually on board on the occasion, accompanied by a separate list containing the names of those belonging to the crew who were absent on duty or otherwise at the time, specifying the cause of such absence, each list to contain the quality of the service of each person, together with the respective descriptions of men taken from the description-bock of the ship or vessel, and their