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That a captain, commander, or commanding officer of a ship
or vessel shall be deemed to be under the command of a flag
when he shall have actually received some order from, or be
acting in execution of some order issued by, a flag officer ; and
in the event of his being directed to join a flag-offiser 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, and shall be considered to continue under the com-
mand of the flag.officer of such station, until he shall have re.
ceived some order directly from, or be acting in execution of
some order issued by, some other flag-officer duly authorised,
or by the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for exe-
cuting the office of Lord High Admiral for the time being.
That a flag officer, commander-in.chief, where there is but
one flag-officer upon service, shall have to his own use the one
sixteenth part of the proceeds of all prizes captured, from the
enemy, and all other captures and seizures as aforesaid, made
by ships and vessels under his command, and of the rewards
conferred for the same, save and except as aforesaid.
That when ships or vessels under the command of several
flags which belong to separate stations shall happen to be joint
captors, each flag-officer under whose orders the ships or ves-
sels are, shall receive such proportion of the flag share to which
he shall be entitled, according to the number of ships belonging
to each respectively.
Captains or commanders, or commanding officers, of such
ships or vessels as shall be under orders from the Lord High
Admiral, or the Commissioners- for executing the office of Lord
High Admiral, being joint captors with other ships or vessels,
under a flag or flags, the flag-officer is only to have his propor-
tion of the flag share according to the number of ships belong.
ing to his squadron. _

That if a flag-officer be sent to command in the ports of the
United Kingdom, he shall have no share in the prizes captured
from the enemy, nor in the other captures or seizures as afore-
said, made by ships or vessels which have sailed, or shall sail,
from that port by order of the Lord High Admiral, or the
Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral,
nor in the rewards conferred for the same.

That when more flag-officers than one shall be serving toge-
ther, the one-sixteenth part of the net proceeds of prizes cap.
tured from the enemy, and of the other captures or seizures as
aforesaid, made by any ships or vessels of the fleet or squadron,
and of the rewards conferred for the same, shall be divided in
the following proportions, namely :
If there be bid two flag-officers, the chief shall have two-
third parts of the said one-sixteenth, and the other shall havethe
remaining third part; bust if the number of flag-officers be more
than two, the chief shall have only one-half, and the other half
shall be equally divided amongst the junior flag.officers.
That commodores of the first class and captains of the fleet
shall be esteemed as flag-officers.
With regard to the preparation of the lists for the distribution
of captures or seizures, and the rewards conferred for the same,
we beg leave most humbly to propose, that the captains and
commanders of your Majesty's ships and vessels of war shall,
on making any capture or seizure, transmit, as soon as may be,
or cause to be transmitted, to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
a true and perfect list of all the officers, seamen, marines, and
soldiers, and others, who were actually on board your Majesty's
ships and vessels of war under their command at the time of the
said capture or seizure, and also of those who were absent on
duty at such time; which list shall contain the quality of the
service of each person on board, together with the description
of the men, taken from the description books of the capturing
ships or vessels, and their several ratings, and be subscribed by
the captain or commanding officer and three or more of the
chief officers on board.
And when such lists shall have been duly examined with the
muster books of such ships or vessels, and lists annexed thereto,
in order to see that such lists agree with such muster books and
annexed lists, as to the names, qualities, or ratings of the officers,
seamen, marines, soldiers, and others belonging to such ships
and vessels, and, upon request, the Accountant-General of the
Navy, or examining officer, shall forthwith grant a certificate
signed by such officer of the truth of any lists so transmitted to
the agents nominated and appointed by the captors or seizers ;
and also upon application the said Accountant-General, or ex.
amining officer, shall give, or cause to be given, to the said
agents all such lists from the muster books of any such ships
and vessels, and annexed lists, as the said agents shall find re-
quisite for their direction in making distribution to the parties
entitled to share in the produce of such captures and seizures,
and the rewards conferred for the same, and shall otherwise be
aiding and assisting to the said agents in all such matters as
shall be necessary.

Lastly.—ln case any difficulty shall arise in respect to any of
the regulations hereby proposed, and not herein sufficiently pro-
vided for, the same shall be referred to the Lord High Admiral,
or the commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Ad_ I
miral for the time being, and their directions thereupon shall
be final, and have the same force and effect as if specially pro-
vided for in your Majesty's royal proclamation.
His Majesty having taken the said memorial into considera-
tion, was pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council,
to approve thereof, and also of the scheme for futuredistribution
therein submitted; and his Majesty, by and with the advice
aforesaid, is hereby pleased to direct, that the aforesaid pro-
clamation of the 29th June, 1815, for granting the distribu-
tion of the proceeds of prizes captured from the enemy, and
the said Order in Council of the 30th June, 1827, for the
distribution of the proceeds and rewards, arising from the
several other captures and seizures before mentioned, be an-
nulled and the same are hereby annulled accordingly, save and
except in so far as the said proclamation or order may have
revoked any proclamation or proclamations, order or orders
respectively, and also save and except as to any captures or
seizures which may have been made before the day of the date
of this order, and any captures or seizures which shall be made
after that day, and which shall be condemned or adjudged in
any of his Majesty's Courts of Vice Admiralty, before notice
of this order shall have been received by the Court of Vice.
Admiralty in which such condemnation or adjudication shall
pass, and that the proceeds of all such last-mentioned captures
and seizures, together with all rewards conferred for the same,
shall continue to be distributed in the proportions and manner
directed in and by the said former proclamation and order re-
spectively. C. C. GREVILLE.

BY THE KING.-A PROCLAMATION.
WILLIAM, R.

Whereas, by our Order in Council of this day's date, we
were graciously pleased, for the reasons therein contained, to
annul our Royal Proclamation of the 29th of June, 1815, for
granting the distribution of the net proceeds of prizes cap-
tured from the enemy; and also our Order in Council of the
30th of June, 1827, for the distribution of the net proceeds of
captures and seizures made by our ships and vessels of war,
under the several Acts passed for the prevention of smuggling,
and other Acts rel-ting to our Revenue of Customs, and to
Trade and Navigation, for the abolition of the slave trade, and
for the capture and destruction of piratical vessels, and of the
rewards which have been conferred for the same; and it is
expedient that provision should be made by us for the future
distribution of such proceeds and rewards, we do now make
known to all our loving subjects, and all others whom it may
concern, by this our Proclamation, and by and with the advice
and consent of our Privy Council, that our will and pleasure is,
and we do hereby direct, that the distribution of such proceeds
and rewards shall be made in the following manner—viz.:—
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 and seizures as aforesaid,
made by the ships and vessels under his command, and of the
rewards conferred for the same, save and except as hereinafter
provided and directed.
That the captain or captains, or commanders, of any of our
ships or sloops of war, or the officer or officers respectively
commanding such ships or sloops of war, who shall have been
actually on board at the time of any such capture or seizure,
shall have one sixth part of the remainder, and where there is
no flag-officer one sixth part of the whole.
That the remainder shall be distributed into shares according
to the annexed scale.

First class—To the senior lieutenant, from first to fifth rates
inclusive, or the commander acting as first lieutenant (where
there is one), the master of the fleet, and field officer of marine
(if embarked)—fifty-five shares each.
Second class—To the other lieutenants, captain of marines,
master, physician of the fleet, and secretary to the commander-
in_chief—forty-five shares each.

Third class—To the chaplain, surgeon, and other flag-
officers, secretaries, purser, lieutenants of marines, boat-
swain, gunner, and carpenter—twenty-five shares each.
Fourth class--To mates, second master, assistant-surgeon,
schoolmaster, clerks, master-at-arms—eighteen shares each.
Fifth class—To midshipmen, master's assistant, admiral's
coxswain, ship's corporal, captain's coxswain, quartermaster,
gunners' and boatswains' mates, captains of forecastle and hold,
coxswain of launch, caulker, sail-maker, carpenters' mates,
armourer, captains of main and fore.tops, sergeant of marines
—ten shares each.

Sixth class—To captains of masts and afterguard, yeoman of
signals, coxswain of pinnace, sail-makers', caulkers', and ar-
mourers' mates, cooper, rope-maker, volunteers of first class,
ship's cook, corporals of marines—eight shares each.
Seventh class--To seamen gunners, gunners' crew, carpen-
ters', coopers', and sail-makers' crews, able seamen, yeomen of
store-room, private and fifer of marines, above seven years—
five shares each.

Eighth class—To cook's mate, barber, ordinary seamen,
captain's and purser's and ward.room stewards, captain's and
ward.room cooks, private and lifer of marines, under seven