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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH AUGUST, 1971,
actually on board any of Our Ships or Vessels of War, and at the actual : sinking, burning, or otherwise destroying any Ship or Ships of War, Private, Privateers belonging to the Enemy, shall share in the Distribution of any i Money or Bounty Money granted as a Reward for the taking, dinking, baz or otherwise destroying any such Ship or Vessel of the Enemy. That no Flag Officer, unless actually present at the Capture or Destruction of any Pin
Piratical Ship, Vessel, or Boat, shall share in any Distribution of the Proceeds or Bous respect of such Pirates, or of the Crews of such Piratical Ship, Vessel, or Dont. That no Flag Officer shall share in any Remuneration or Reward conferred or awarded
Crew of any of Our Ships or Vessels as Salvage, unless he shall have been actually on! the Ship or Vessel to which the Award shall be made, or have personally aided and as 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 Pres
of any Prize captured from the Enemy, or in other Captures, Seizures, Rewards, distributive Proceeds as aforesaid, made by any Ships or Vessels which shall sail mon leave such Port by Order of the Lord High Admiral, or of Our Commissioners for exec the Office of Lord High Admiral.
That when Ships or Vessels under the Command of several Flag Officers belonging to some Stations shall be joint Captors, &c., each Flag Officer shall receive a Proportion of the Thirtieth Part, according to the Number of Olicers and Men present under the Comment each such Flag Officer; and when Ships or Vessels under Orders from the Lord High Ad or from Our Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, are joint Cape &c. with other Ships or Vessels under a Flag or Flags, the like Regulations as Apportionment of the Flag Share to the Flag Officer or Officers are to be observed. With reference to Flag Officers it is to be noted,-
That when an inferior Flag Officer is sent to reinforce a superior Officer on any Station. superior Flag Officer shall not share in any Prize taken by the inferior Flag Officer before he has arri within the Limits of that Station, unless the inferior Officer shall have received some Order dire from, and shall be acting in execution of some Order issued by, such superior Flag Officer.
No chief Flag Officer quitting any Station, except upon some definite urgent Service and with : Intention of returning to the Station as soon as such Service is performed, shall share in any P taken by Our Ships or Vessels left behind after he has passed the Limits of the Station, or after has surrendered the Command to another Flag Officer appointed by the Admiralty to command chief upon such Station.
An inferior Flag Officer quitting any Station (except when detached by Orders from his ( mander-in-Chief upon a special Service, accompanied with Orders to return to such Station as soon the Service has been performed,) shall have no Share in Prizes taken by the Ships and Vessels re ing on the Station after he has passed the Limits thereof.
In like manner Flag Officers remaining on such Station shall not share in the Prizes taken such inferior Officer, or by Ships or Vessels under his immediate Command, after he has quited Limits of the Station, except he has been detached as aforesaid.
A Commander-in-Chief or other Flag Officer belonging to any Station shall not share in any or Prizes taken out of the Limits of that Station by any Ship or Vessel under the Command of a 1 Officer of any other Station, or under Orders from Our Coinmissioners of the Admiralty, unless - Commander-in-Chief or Flag Officer is expressly authorized by Our said Commissioners to the Command of that Station in which the Prize or Prizes is or are taken, and shall actually have: upon him such Command.
Every Commodore having a Captain under him shall be esteemed a Flag Officer with respe the Thirtieth Part of Prizes taken, whether he be commanding in chief or serving under Comm
The First Captain to the Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of Our Fleet, and also the l Captain to any Flag Officer appointed to command a Fleet of Ten Ships of the Line or upwards, be deemed to be a Flag Officer for the Purpose of sharing in Prize, and shall be entitled to therein as the Junior Flag Officer of such Fleet.
Any Officer on board any of Our Ships of War at the Time of capturing any Prize or Prizes shall have more Commissions than One shall be entitled only to share in such Prize or Prizes nece to the Share allotted to him by the above-mentioned Distribution in respect of his superior Co
sion or Office.
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And with reference to these Regulations it is to be noted, that a Captain, Commander, Commanding Officer of a Ship or Vessel shall be deemed to be under the Command of a F he shall actually have received some Order from, or be acting in the Execution of some Order: by, a Flag Officer, whether he be or be not within the Limits of the Station of such Flag and in the event of his being directed to join a Flag Officer on any Station, he shall be deem
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