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release yourself from your Engagement by repaying the Enlisting Shilling and any Pay you have received as a Recruit, and by paying Twenty Shillings as Smart Money, you will be legally adjudged to be a Marine without Attestation, and 'will be proceeded against as a Deserter.

Signature of the Officer or Non-commis- Į
sioned Officer commanding the Party S
Name of the Recruit
Residing at

QUESTIONS to be separately put by the JUSTICE to a
RECRUIT.

1. What is your Name?

2. In what Parish, and in or near what Town, and in what County, were you born?

3. What is your Age?

4. What is your Trade or Calling?

5. Are you an Apprentice?

6. Are you married?

7. Are you ruptured or lame; have you ever been subject. to Fits; or have you any Disability or Disorder which impedes the free Use of your Limbs, or unfits you for ordinary Labour?

8. Are you willing to be attested to serve in the Royal Marine Forces for the Term of [this Blank to be filled up by the Justice with "Twelve Years," if the Person enlisted is of the Age of Eighteen Years or upwards, but if under that Age then the Differ ence between his Age and Eighteen is to be added to such Twelve Years], provided Her Majesty should so long require your Services, and also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any Foreign Station?

9. At what Place, on what Day, at what Hour of the Day, and by whom, were you enlisted?

10. For what Bounty did you enlist?

11. Have you any Objection to make to the Manner of your Enlistment?

12. Do you now belong to the Militia, or to the Naval Coast Volunteers?*

*The Justice is directed, in putting the Twelfth Question to the Recruit, and before he receives his Answer, distinctly to apprize the Recruit that if he belongs to the Militia, and denies the Fact, he is liable to forfeit One Penny a Day of his Pay for Eighteen Calendar Months, and to Fourteen Days Imprisonment if he is not attested; and if he belongs to the Naval Coast Volunteers he is liable, under the Act Sixteenth and Seventeenth Victoria, Chapter Seventy-three, to Imprisonment for Six Months, and his Enlistment will be null and void.

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13. Do you belong to any Regiment or Corps in Her Majesty's Army, or to the Marines, Ordnance, or Navy, or to the Forces of the East India Company?

14. Have you ever served in the Army, Marines, Ordnance, Militia, or Navy, or in the Forces of the East India Company?

15. Have you ever been rejected as unfit for Her Majesty's Service, or for the Service of the East India Company, upon any prior Enlistment?

DECLARATION to be made by a RECRUIT on Attestation. do declare, That the above Questions

have been separately put to me, that the Answers thereto have been read over to me, and that they are the same that I gave, and are true.

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Declared before me,

Signature of Marine.
Signature of Justice.

OATH to be taken by a RECRUIT on ATTESTATION.

do make Oath, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors; and that I will, as in Duty bound, honestly and faithfully defend Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in Person, Crown, and Dignity, against all Enemies; and will observe and obey all Orders of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and of the Generals and Officers set over me. So help me GOD. Witness my Hand, Signature of the Recruit. Witness present.

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do hereby certify, That the above is the Description of the

Recruit
the foregoing Questions were put to the said

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; and in my Presence all

;

that

that the Answers written opposite to them are those which he gave to me; and that the Thirtieth and Thirty-sixth Articles of the Rules and Articles for the better Government of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore, against Mutiny and Desertion, were read over to him; that he took the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity; that he received the Sum of on being attested this Day; that he was not attested until Twenty-four Hours had elapsed after he received Enlisting Money; that

[this Blank is to be supplied by the Words "the Place where he swears that he enlisted is in the Vicinity of my Residence," or by the Words "the Place where he swears that he enlisted is within the Division, District, or Place for which I act," or by the Words "I am acting within the Division, District, or Place where the Head Quarters of the Recruiting Party is stationed," as the Case may be]; that I am not an Officer in the Marines, and that I have given him a Duplicate of this Certificate, signed with my Name.

Signature of the Justice.

DECLARATION to be made by a MARINE renewing his Service.

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Division of the

do declare, That I am at present

Day

[or was, as the Case may be,] in the Royal Marine Forces; that I enlisted on the for a Term of

of

Age of

Years; that I am of the Years; and that I will serve Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, as a Marine, for a further Term of Years [to be filled up with such Number of Years as shall be required to complete a total Service of Twenty-one Years], provided my Services should so long be required, and also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any Foreign. Station.

Declared before me,

Signature of Marine.
Signature of Witness.

FORM of OATH to be taken by a MASTER whose Apprentice

has absconded.

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of

by Trade a

do make Oath, That I am and that

of

Day of

was bound to serve as an Apprentice to me in the said Trade, by Indenture dated the

about the

Years; and that the said

for the Term did on or

my Service without my Consent, and that to the best of my

Day of

last abscond and quit

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FORM OF JUSTICE'S CERTIFICATE to be given to the MASTER

of an Apprentice.

One of Her Majesty's Justices of

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came before me at

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certify, That
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and made Oath that he was by Trade a that was bound to serve as an Apprentice to him in the said Trade, by Indenture dated the Day of for the Term of that the said Apprentice did on or about the

Day of

Years; and

abscond and quit the Service of the said without his Consent, and that to the

best of his Knowledge and Belief the said Apprentice is aged about

Years.

DESCRIPTION

DESCRIPTION RETURN of

who was apprehended [or

"surrendered himself," as the Case may be,] on the
and was committed to Confinement at

Day of on the

Royal Marines.

Age

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It is important for the Public Service, and for the Interest of the Deserter, that this Part of the Return should be accurately filled up, and the Details should be inserted by the Magistrate in his own Handwriting, or, under his Direction, by his Clerk.

I do hereby certify, that the Prisoner
has been duly examined before me as to
the Circumstance herein stated, and has
declared in my Presence that he t
a Deserter from the above-mentioned
Corps.

Signature and Address
of Magistrate.

Signature of Prisoner.

I certify, that I have inspected the Prisoner, and consider him for Military Service.

Signature of Mi

litary Medical Officer, or of Private Medical Practitioner.

Signature of Informant. be, and if unfit, state the Cause of Unfitness.

Insert "fit" or "unfit," as the Case may

+ Insert "is" or "is not," as the Case may be.

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