Application of Rents and Purchase Monies as the Crown shall direct. any Trustee or Trustees, his or their Heirs, Executors, Administrators or Assigns respectively, according to the Nature and Quality thereof, in Trust to be sold, in such Manner as His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, shall be pleased to direct; and that it shall be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, to direct the Rents and Profits of any such Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, for all or any Part of the Term or Terms of Years, or other Estate or Interest for which the same may be holden, and the Money to arise by any Sale or Sales, or to be produced by any of the Means aforesaid, to be applied in Payment of any Costs, Charges and Expences incident to any Commission or Commissions for finding the Title of His Majesty, and to the making of any such Grant, and for carrying the same or any Trusts or Provisions thereof into Execution, or in rewarding any Person or Persons, or the Family of any Person or Persons, making a Discovery of any such Forfeiture, or Purchase by an Alien, or of His Majesty's Right and Title thereto, or in discharge ing the Whole or any Part of any Debt or Debts due from any Alien, or any Person or Persons whose Estate or Property any such Leasehold Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments have been, or for the Use and Benefit, in Whole or in Part, of any such Alien, or of his or her Family, or any Part thereof, or of any Person or Persons adopted or considered by such Alien as Part of his or her Family, or of any Person or Persons whose Estate or Property any such Leasehold Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments have been, or his, her or their Family, or any Part thereof, or of any Person or Persons adopted or considered by such Person or Persons as Part of his, her or their Family, or for all or any of the Purposes aforesaid, as to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors respective. ly, shall seem fit; and all Grants heretofore made by His Ma- Former Grants jesty, which would under the Provisions of this Act be good, valid by the Crown and effectual, shall be and are hereby confirmed, and are hereby declared to be as good, valid and effectual, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same had been made under the Powers, Provisions and Authorities of this Act, and as if such Powers, Provisions and Authorities had been in full Force and Effect at the Time of making such Grants; any Thing in the said recited Act or any other Act heretofore made to the contrary notwithstanding. confirmed. Purchase II. And be it further enacted, That the Purchaser or Pur- Purchasers not chasers of any such Leasehold Manors, Lands, Tenements or answerable for Hereditaments, sold under the Authority of this Act, or any Application of Person or Persons paying any Sum or Sums of Money under the Authority of the same, or in pursuance of any Grants to be made by virtue thereof, shall not be bound to see to the Application, or be answerable for the Misapplication or Nonapplication of the Monies paid by them respectively. Money. III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in every Surplus Monies Case where any Surplus shall remain of any Monies which may to be paid to arise from any such Sale or Sales, or which shall be paid under Commissioners the Authority of this Act, by any Person or Persons, after satisfy- of Land Reing all such Purposes as shall have been ordered and directed by plied as herein His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, under the Provisions of this mentioned. Act, shall be paid to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Land Revenue venue, and ар 31 G.2. c.10. § 6. Admiralty may direct Ships to be paid at Ports where no Commissioner re sides. Revenue for the Time being, to be applied by them in the same Way and Manner as the Monies arising from the Sale of any Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, of or belonging to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, is by the several Acts now in Force for the Management and Improvement of the Land Revenue of the Crown, or any of them, directed to be applied and disposed of. CAP. XVIII. An Act to make further Provision for the Payment of the Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen employed in the Royal Navy, and for establishing a regular Method for the punctual, frequent and certain Payment of their Wages ; • and for enabling them more easily and readily to remit the same for the Support of their Wives and Families; and for preventing Frauds and Abuses attending such Payments; it is, amongst ' other Provisions for the due Payment of the Navy, enacted, that 'whensoever and as soon as any Ship or Vessel of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, having been Twelve whole Months or 'more in Sea Pay, shall be or arrive in any Port of Great Britain where any Commissioner of the Navy shall be or reside, the Commissioners of the Navy at their Board shall solicit such Sums of Money as shall be sufficient, and as soon as the same shall be issued, shall cause immediate Payment to be made of all the Wages due upon the Pay Books (therein before directed to be transmitted to the said Commissioners) to all such Officers and Seamen, their Executors and Administrators, or to their respective Attorney or Attornies duly authorized as thereinafter directed, deducting thereout whatever Monies shall have been paid before by way of Advance, or that shall stand against them in the Books of such Ships or Vessels on account of any Defalcation, leaving always Six Months' Wages and no more due to such Officers and Seamen for their Service in such Ship or Vessel unpaid and in arrear: And Whereas it has since been found convenient and expedient that His Majesty's Ships and • Vessels shall be occasionally paid at Ports and Places where a • Commissioner of the Navy shall not be or reside, and it is necessary that a proper and discretionary Authority should be given to the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High • Admiral of this United Kingdom, to order Payments to be made at any such Ports or Places when found expedient for the Public Service;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid, as often as they may think convenient and expedient that any of His Majesty's Ships or Vessels shall be paid at a Port where a Commissioner of the Navy shall not not be or reside, to signify their Directions in Writing for that II. And Whereas it may be expedient to pay the Crews of Ships on their Arrival at the Port, or previous to sailing from thence, under Circumstances which will not admit of the Delay ' which must necessarily occur in sending the Pay Books of such Ship or Vessel to the Navy Office to be examined previously to Payment being made thereupon, as is required by the said recit 6 6 amined. ed Act;' Be it therefore further enacted, That it shall and may Payments may be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Navy, in Cases be made, though of Urgency, as they shall see necessary, to cause Payment to be Books are not made upon such Books without the previous Examination there- previously exof as aforesaid; but it is nevertheless hereby required and directed that the said Books shall, immediately after Payment shall have been so made thereon, be transmitted to the Navy Office, for the Purpose of undergoing the necessary Examination and Adjustment, and in order that any Charges omitted to be made, or any Overpayments that may have occurred thereon, may be set off, or abated and recovered, at the first Opportunity, from the Arrears of Wages or growing Wages of the Men in respect of whom such Omissions or Overpayments may have taken place. ، III. And Whereas it may be occasionally inconvenient and inexpedient to the public Service, at Ports where a single Commissioner may be or reside, and incompatible with his other public Duties, that he should superintend and controul Payments of Ships and Vessels; and it may be proper that a discretionary Authority should be vested in the said Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid, to substitute an Officer to superintend and controul the said Payments instead ⚫ of a Commissioner of the Navy;' Be it therefore further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid, when and so often as they may deem it expedient, to appoint an Officer of the Navy, of the Rank of Captain or Commander, to superintend and controul the Payment of any of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels; and that all Payments to be made in the Presence of and under the Superintendance and Controul of such Officer, shall be held as Payments made in the Presence of a Commissioner of the Navy, and be passed to the Credit of the Treasurer of the Navy accordingly. IV. And Whereas it has been considered beneficial to His Majesty's Service, that a certain Portion of the Pay which may be due to the Warrant and Petty Officers, not allowed to draw Bills for their Pay, and to each Seaman, Non-commissioned Officer and • Private of Marines and Boy serving on board His Majesty's Ships and Vessels, who may be desirous of receiving it, shall be issued to them at the Expiration of every Month, or as soon after as the Convenience and Necessity of the Service may admit, on the Captains or Commanders appointed by the Admiralty may superin tend Payments. Monthly Pay ments may be made to certain Officers and Men. Duty of Officers appointed to carry Regu ८ Ship's Arrival at any Port at Home or Abroad where Money can be procured for that Purpose, which Regulation cannot be carried into Effect without an Alteration of certain Provisions for the better Payment of the Navy, which have been established by the said Act before recited;' Be it therefore further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid, to authorize and direct the Issuing and Payment to such of the Warrant and Petty Officers of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels in Commission as are not entitled to draw Bills, and to the Seamen, Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of Marines and Boys, who shall be desirous of receiving the same, a Portion of the Pay which may be actually due to them, in such Proportions per Month, to such Amount and according to such Rate, as shall for that Purpose be authorized and ordered by His Majesty in Council; such Payment to be made in any Port Abroad or at Home, at the Expiration of every Month, or as soon after as the Convenience and Necessity of the Service will admit; and for the Purpose of carrying this Regulation into Effect, the Captain or Commanding Officer is hereby directed and enjoined to make out or cause to be made out a complete List of the Names with their respective Numbers on the Ship's Books, of such of the Description of Persons before mentioned as shall be willing to receive such Portion of their Pay, and who shall be actually on board at the Time of making out the said List, which List shall be signed by the said Captain or Commanding Officer, One other Commissioned Officer or Warrant Officer entitled to draw Bills, and by the Purser; and that the Purser of the said Ship or Vessel shall then draw, for the Amount of the said Portion of Pay so to be issued, a Bill at Three Days' Sight upon the Commissioners of the Navy, according to the Form set forth in the Schedule to this Act annexed, which Bill shall be certified by the Signature of the Captain or Commanding Officer of the Ship or Vessel in the Manner prescribed by the said Schedule; and the Commissioners of the Navy are hereby directed and enjoined to accept the said Bill, and assign it for Payment in the usual Manner on the Treasurer of the Navy, who shall be entitled to take Credit for the same, and the Amount shall be charged against the said Purser, who shall clear his Account in the Manner hereinafter directed; and that as soon as Cash shall have been obtained on the said Bill, the said Portion of Pay shall be paid by the said Purser to the Parties entitled thereto on the said List, in the Presence of the Captain or Commanding Officer and a Commissioned or Payment to be Warrant Officer entitled to draw Bills, and the Payment shall lations into Effect, and of the Commissioners of the Navy. certified. be certified on the said List by the said Captain or Commanding Officer, the said Commissioned or Warrant Officer and the said Purser; and that as soon after the said Payment as may be, the said Captain or Commanding Officer shall transmit the said List by the first safe and convenient Opportunity to the Commissioners of the Navy; and the Captain or Commanding Officer and the Purser shall likewise, under their respective Hands, certify at the End of each Muster Book the full Amount, in Words at Length, of the Monies which shall have been so paid during the exact Period of Time of such Book, and that the several Sums so paid have been been duly charged against the respective Men's Names on such Books: Provided always, that in case after any such Payment there Proviso respectshall be a Balance remaining in the Hands of the Purser, he shall ing Balance. give Credit for the Amount thereof in the next Bill to be drawn by him for Monthly Payments, so that he shall not be at liberty to draw for more than what, including such Balance, shall be sufficient to answer the next Monthly Payment. V. And be it further enacted, That on the Receipt of the said List, the Payments made thereon shall be carried to the Credit of the Purser of the Ship or Vessel by whom the Bill for the Amount shall have been drawn as aforesaid; and on the making out of the Pay Books, Muster Books, Slop Books, Pay Lists and Pay Tickets of the said Ship or Vessel, the Sums so paid shall be charged against the Wages of each Person having received the same. · VI. And Whereas it may happen that some of the Persons desirous of receiving such Portion of Pay at the Time of such Payment be absent on Duty or sick, or on Leave of Absence, or from other sufficient Čause;' Be it therefore further enacted, That on the Return to the Ship of any Individual so absent, his Name may and shall be subjoined to the next Lists to be made out for Payment, such Lists specifying the Cause and Date of Absence, and Date of Return; and in case any Individual shall be discharged to another Ship or Vessel, and shall at the Time of his Discharge be entitled to any Payment or Portion of Payment not then made, he shall be entitled to a Certificate from the Captain or Commanding Officer of the Ship or Vessel from which he may have been discharged, who is hereby required to furnish the same, specifying the Rating of such Individual in the Muster Books of the said Ship or Vessel, and the Time for which he is entitled to such Portion of Pay, which Portion shall be paid to him on the next Payment to be made to the Crew of the Ship or Vessel into which he may have been discharged, and shall be allowed to the Purser of such last mentioned Ship or Vessel in the Account of such next Payments: Provided nevertheless, that in all Cases where any of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels shall be at a Port where a Commissioner of the Navy shall be and reside, and whereat there shall be an Establishment of Clerks, having Money in their Custody for the Payment of Wages, and that such Monthly Portion of Pay hereinbefore authorized and directed to be advanced shall at that Time be due and payable, the Purser shall draw a Bill for the Amount thereof, subject to such Abatement, and certified and attested in Manner and Form as hereinbefore directed, which Bill shall be cashed to him by the Clerks to the Treasurer of the Navy at such Out Port out of the Monies in their Hands for the Payment of Wages, and the Amount thereof shall be charged by the Commissioners of the Navy against the Purser, as before directed, and the Treasurer of the Navy shall be entitled to take Credit for the same. VII. And be it further enacted, That in case of a Payment made on board a Ship or Vessel which, from her Establishment or other Circumstances, may not have a Purser on board, the Commanding Officer of every such Ship or Vessel shall act as and be deemed to be the Purser for all the Purposes of this Act; and that in such Case the Payment shall be made in the Presence of any Payments to be carried to Ac count Credit of the Purser. |