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PEIZSS MONlt.
954
bugler of marines (artillery or light infantry) or of
land forces doing duty as marines, shipwright (old
system), stoker and coal trimmer, blacksmith's crew,
armourer's erew, plumber's crew, cooper's crew,
third writer, lithographer, stoker second class, car-
penter's crew, domestic second class, under three
years' service as such, and domestic third class, over
IS years of age, bandsman, ship's steward's assistant
with less than three years' service as such, sick berth
attendant after three years' service if qualified for
promotion, tailor, shoemaker, butcher, second head
Krooman, second tindal or second head man of seed ies,
also boatman of the coast guard (when embarked for
service), and dock and victualling yard apprentices
(if embarked for service), four shares each.
Tenth Class.— Bakers, sick berth attendant (under
three years' service or if not qualified for promotion),
assistant baker, cook's mate, second cook's mate,
assistant butcher, krooman, seedie, supernumeraries,
except as herein-after provided, and persons borne
merely as passengers, and not declining to render
assistance on any occasion of capture, seizure, &c,
two shares each.
Eleventh Class.— Signal boy, boy first class, boy
second class, ship's steward's boy, band boy, boy
writer, domestic third class, under 18 years of age, one
share each.
And with respect to supernumeraries, We do hereby
direct:—
1st. That all supernumeraries holding ranks in the
service above the ranks or ratings specified in the
sixth class of this Our Proclamation who have been
ordered to do duty in any of Our ships and vessels by
the Lord High Admiral, by Our Commissioners for
executing the office of Lord High Admiral, by the ,
senior officer of the doctor squadron, or if none senior
then by the captain or commanding officer of the j
capturing ship or vessel, if not by special authority i
employed in higher capacities, shall share according I
to the ranks which they respectively hold in the j
service; but in all cases, to qualify them for so sharing
and not merely as supernumeraries in the tenth class,
due notation of their being thus respectively ordered
to do duty must be made on the victualling lists and
prize lists.
2nd. That all supernumeraries holding ratings in
the service below the denominations of those specified
in the fifth class of this Our Proclamation, and who |
at full victuals are engaged in the ordinary duties of
the ship, shall always share according to the ratings
which they bear in the service.
3rd. That no interpreter, unless holding some rank
or rating in the service shall share in any proceeds,
bounties or awards as aforesaid, except by thespecial
permission of the Lord High Admiral, or Our Com-
missioners for executing the office of Lord High
Admiral for the time being.
And in order that Our Royal intentions herein may
be duly carried into effect, We further direct that
when any capture or seizure is made, or service per
formed for which a distributable grant or reward is
to be made, or is expected to be conferred or award
ed to any of Our ships or vessels of war, the captain
or commanding officer shall transmit or cause to be
transmitted, as soon as may be, to the Secretary of
the Admiralty, a true and perfect list of all the officers,
seamen, marines, soldiers, and others who were act-
ually on board on the occasion, with a notation there-
on, stating whether any other of Our ships or vessels
was in sight at the time of the capture, accompanied
by a separate list containing the names of those be-
longing to the erew who were absent on duty or other-
wise at the time, specifying the cause of such absence
each list to contain the quality of the service of each
person, with their several ratings, to be subscribed by
the captain or commanding officer, and three or more
of the chief officers on board.
And when the list of those actually on board, with
the separate list of persons absent, though belonging
to the ship pr vessel, shall have been verified on ex-
amination with the ship's books lodged as official re-
cords, the Accountant-General of Our Navy shall
grant a certificate that such lists are correct or have
been corrected as occasion may require, in order that
distribution of the respective prize or other proceeds
payable as prize or salvage money may be duly made
in the department of the Accountant-General of Our
Navy.
And in the distribution of such prize, or other pro-
ceeds payable as prize and salvage money, We hereby
direct that all officers, seamen, marines, soldiers, and
others holding acting appointments superior to their
substantive ranks or ratings, and who are in recefpt
of pay of such acting appointment, shall share in the
classes to which the ranks and ratings in which they
are acting, may belong; and further that all persons
temporarily employed in Our Navy shall share In the
classes to which the ranks and ratings to which they
are temporarily appointed may belong.
And in the event of difficulty arisiug with respect to
any of the Regulations hereby ordered, or if any case
should occur not herein provided for, or not specially
provided for, We are pleased hereby to authorise the
Lord High Admiral, or Our Commissioners for exe-
cuting the office of Lord High Admiral for the time
being, to issue such directions thereupon as may ap-
pear jnst and expedient ; which directions shall have
the same force and effect as if specially provided for
in this Our Royal Proclamation ; Provided always,
that the distribution herein before ordered shall take
effect only with respect to the proceeds of captures,
seizures, and services as aforesaid, which shall be
made and performed on and after the first day of Nov-
ember one thousand nine hundred ; and that the pro-
ceeds arising from all captures, seizures, and services
as aforesaid, made or performed, prior to that date,
shall be distributed in accordance with any Proclam-
ation or Proclamations now in force or in force at
the time of such captures, seizures, or services re-
spectively and applicable thereto, which We are
pleased hereby to direct accordingly.
Given at Our Court at Balmoral, this seventeenth
day of September, in the year of Our Lord one
thousand nine hundred and in the sixty-fourth year
of Our reign
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace.
The 28th day of August, 1914.
Present :
The KING'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas there was this day read at the Board a
Memorial from the Right Honourable the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated ti'e 26th day
of August, 1914, in the words following, viz.!:—
"Whereas Her late Majesty Queen Victoria
was graciously pleased by Her Royal Proclama-
tion of the 17th day of September, uoo, to regu-
late, according to the scheme set forth therein
or recognised thereby, the distribution of the net
proceeds of prizes captured from the enemy, of
captures ano seizures under the several Acts of
Parliament passed relating to the Revenues of
Customs, and to Trade and Navigation, for the
abolition of the Slave Trade, for the capture and
destruction of Pirates and Piratical Vessels, and
of the rewards conferred for the same, as also,
of the awards for all salvage granted to the Crews
of Your Majestv's Ships and Vessels of War,
v hen not otherwise specially apportioned by the
terms of the respective awards and allowances:
"And whereas we are of opinion that the con-
ditions governing the distribution of the pro-
ceeds of Prizes captured from the enemy when
such proceeds are granted by Your Majesty to
the Officers and Men of Your Majesty's Fleet,
require modification to bring them into accord
with modern conditions:
"And whereas it is intended that In lien of the
system of distribution of Prize Money described
in the above-mentioned proclamation there
should be substituted, under regulations and
conditions to be hereafter announced, a system
of Prize Bounties or Gratuities for more general
distribution to the Officers and Men of Your
Majesty's Naval Forces :
" We humbly beg leave to recommend that
Your Majesty will be graciously pleased, by
Your Order in Council, to cancel so much of the
above-mentioned Proclamation as relates to the
distribution of the net proceeds of Prizes cap-
tured from the enemy."
His Majesty, having taken the said Memorial
into consideration, was pleased, by and with the
advice of his Privy Council, to approve of what
is therein proposed. And the Right Honourable the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give
the necessary directions herein accordingly.
ALMERIC FITZROY.