The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-13 00:00:00

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY.
BY THE QUEEN.-A PROCLAMATION.

VICTORIA hereas by our Order in Council
we were graciously pleased to annul, from and after
the thirty-first (lay of December next, our royal pro
clatmtions of the nineteenth day of May and the
sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-six, regulating, according to the schemes set
fbrth therein, or recogni-ed thereby, the distribution
of the net proceeds of prizes, captured from the enemy,
of captures and seizures under the several Acts of
Parliament passed relating to the revenues of cus-
toms ai.d to trade and navigation, for the abolition of
the slave-trade, for the capture and destruction of
piratical vessels and of the rewards conferred for the

same, as also of the awards for all salvage granted to
the crews of our ships and vessels of war,
when not otherwise specially apportioned by
the terms of the respective awards and allow-
ances. And in consequence af several new
ratings and denominations of officers and others
having been introduced into our naval service since
the dates of our said former proclamations, and for
other causes, it is expedient that provisions should be
made for the future distribution of such net proceeds
and salvage not otherwise specially apportioned, and
, all other moneys whatsoever granted to be shared in
the manner of prize, money.
We do therefore now make known to all our loving
subjects, and to all others hom it may concern, by
this our proclamation, by and with the advice and
consent of our Privy Council, that our royal will
and pleasure is, and we do hereby direct that the dis-
tribution of all such net proceeds of prizes, rewards,
allowances, salvage, awards, and of all bounties and
grants whatsoever, distributable to our royal navy in
the manner of prize•money, shall be made as follows,
videlicet:—

That the flag-officer or officers shall have one-
sixteenth part of the whole net proceeds arising from
prizes captured from the enemy and from all other
captures, seizures, &c., as aforesaid made 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 one flag-officer, he
shall have the entire one-sixteenth: when two
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-six-
teenth part : and when there shall be more than two
flag -officers, the chief shall receive one-half of the said
one-sixteenth, and the remaining halt 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 de-
stroying any ship or ships of war, or privateers be-
longing to the enemy, shall share in the distribution
of any head money or bounty-money granted as a
reward for the taking, sinking, burning, or otherwise
destroying any such ship or vessel of the enemy.
That nu flag•ofpicer, unless actually present at the
capture or destruction of any pirate ship, vessel, or
boat, shall be entitled to share in any distribution of
the proceeds or bounty in respect of the crews of
such piratical ship, vessel, or boat.
That no flag-officer shall share in any remuneration
or reward conferred or awarded to any of our ships
or vessels as salvage, unless he shall have been
actually on board the ship or vessel to which the
award shall be made, or have personally aided and
assisted in the transaction at the time the service was
rendered.

That no flag-officer commanding in any port in the
United Kingdom shall share in the proceeds of any
prizes captured from the enemy, nor in other cap-
tures, seizures, rewards, or any distributive proceeds
as aforesaid made by any ships or vessels which shall
sail from, or leave such port, by order of the Lord
High Admiral, or of our Commissioners for executLg
the office of Lord High Admiral.
That when ships or vessels under the command
of several flag•officers belonging to separate sta-
tions shall be joint captors, &c., each flag officer shall
receive a proportion of one-sixteenth, according to the
number of officers and men present under the com-
mand of each such flag officer ; and when ships or
vessels under orders from the Lord High Admiral,
or from our Commissioners for executing the office of
Lord High Admiral, are joint captors, &c., with other
ships or vessels under a flag or flags, the like regula-
tion as to the apportionment of the flag share to the
flag officer or officers is to be observed.
And with reference to these regulations, it is to
be noted that a captain, commander, or other com-
manding officer, of a ship or vessel, shall be
deemed to be under the command of a flag, when
he shall actually 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 com-
mand of such flag officer, from the time when he ar-
rives within the limits of the station, which circum •
•itance is alway to be carefully noted in the logbook;
and it shall be considered that he continues under
the fig officer of such station until he shall have re-
ceived some order directly from, or be acting in the
execution of some order issued by, some other flag
officer, duly authorised, 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, or master commanding, or
any other officer commanding any ship, sloop, or
vessel of war, singly making a capture, or seizure,
or otherwise entitled to the distributive benefit
arising from any proceeds, reward, grant, bounty,
salvage, or award, as aforesaid; 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; and if more
than one commanding officer of the same rank of
command shall be entitled to share as joint captors,
&c., the one-eighth shall be equally divided between
them ; but when captains, commanders, lieutenants
commanding, and masters commanding, respectively,
our ships, sloops, and vessels of war, shall share to-
gether, 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
six parts, each commander of a sloop three parts,
and each lieutenant commanding, or master com-
manding a vessel of war, two parts which we hereby
direct shall be the proportion in which they shall re-
spectively 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 com-
manders of sloops.
And we hereby 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, the remainder of the net proceeds shall be
distrubted in ten 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, seizure, dm,
as aforesaid, and every person present and assisting,
shall receive shares, or parts of shares, according to
his class, as set forthl in the following scale :--
First class—Commanders under captains in rated
ships, masters of the fleet, medical inspectors, inspec-
tors of steam machinery afloat in or with any ship or
ships above the sixth rate—forty shares each.
Second class—First-lieutenants in rated ships, not
hearing commanders, secretaries to admirals of the
fleet, or to admirals commanding in chief, thputy
medical inspectors, inspectors of steam machinery
afloat in or with any ship or vessel below the fifth
rate --twenty-five shares each.

Third class —Sea lieutenants, masters, captains of
marines, of marine artillery, or of land forces doing
duty as marines, whether having higher brevet rank or
not, secretaries to admirals or to commodores of the
first class, not commanding in chief, chief engineers of
the first class—twenty shares each.
Fourth class—Lieutenants or quartermasters of
marines, or lieutenants of marine artillery, lieutenants
quarter-masters, or ensigns of land forces, doing duty
as marines, secretaries to commodores of the second
class, chaplains, surgeons, paym asters, and pursers,
naval instructor:, mates, assistant surgeons, second
masters, chief engineers of the second and third classes
gunners, boatswains, carpenters, assistant engineers,
engineers not yet on the establishment as regulated
by the Order in Council of 1847, clerks in charge,
passed clerks—twelve shares each.
Fifth class—Midshipmen, masters' assistants, clerks
(not passed), naval cadets, assistant clerks—seven
shares each.
Sixth class—Seamen's schoolmasters, masters at
and cap-
arms, chief boatswain's mates, aidadrq
AuLtermasters,
tain's coxswains,
-a renter's mates, cap-
ship's c.orcpnr
gunner's, boatswain's,
afterguard, of the
tains of the torecastleanof thep
and of the fore-top, coxswains
hold, of the main-to.p,
Imakers ropemakers, caulkers,
of the launch,
leading stokers, ssahlip's_ cooks,' blacksmiths, pilots,
As of marines, of marine artillery, or of land
forces,sereB doing duty as marines—six shares each.
Seventh class—Captains of the mast and mizentop,
porpen of signals, coxswains of the barge, pinnace, and
cutter, second captains of the forecastle, of the main-
top, of the foretop, and of the afterguard, sailmaker's,
and caulker's mates, paymaster's and purser's stewards,
musicians, coopers, armourers, corporals of marines
or of land forces doing duty as marines, bombar-
diers of marine artillery, head kroomans—four
shares each.

Eighth class—Able seamen, carpenter's, sailmaker's,
and cooper's crew, yeomen of store-rooms, ordinary
seamen, privates and fifers of marines, or of land
furces doing duty as marines, gunners of marine
artillery, painters, stokers, col-trimmers, second