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1832
ADDENDA—NAVAL RESERVE.

12. In the case of Pauper Lunatics in Parochial Asylums and in the licensed wards of Poorhouses, belonging to Parishes to which the Lunatics are chargeable, the weekly cost per head will be determined by the Annual Return made by the Governor or Treasurer to the Board of Supervision, and the weekly cost per head will be intimated by the Governor or Treasurer to the Inspector or Inspectors of Poor of the Parish or Parishes to which the Poorhouse belongs. In the case of Parishes boarding paupers in these Institutions by agreement, the actual rate paid will be entered in the claim.

13. A certificate of rates of maintenance in District Asylums, and of rates paid for boarders in Royal, District, and Parochial Asylums, and licensed Wards of Poorhouses, will be furnished by the General Board of Lunacy, and vouchers relating to payments in such cases need not therefore be transmitted, but in the case of paupers in Institutions for Imbeciles, receipts from the Treasurer must be forwarded to the Board of Supervision.

Approved by the Secretary for Scotland,
10th June 1890.


NAVAL RESERVE.

Scale and Regulations, Dated March, 1899, issued by the Admiralty and Board of Trader under the Merchant Shipping (Mercantile Marine Fund) Act, 1898,[1] for the grant of Money Allowances to Shipowners in respect of "Boy Sailors."

I. An allowance equal to 20 per cent. of the Light Dues paid in any one year in respect of any one vessel will be granted at the end of each financial year (during which the vessel must have been not less than nine months with Articles of Agreement running) to the then owner of that vessel, provided it carries on each voyage " Boy Sailors " according to the following scale:—

Under 500 tons net 1 boy,
500 and under 1,000 tons net 2 boys,
1,000 and under 2,000 tons net 3 boys,

and an additional boy for every 1,000 tons or portion of 1,000 tons net.

Note.—Any vessel, no matter what its tonnage, carrying six Boy Sailors shall be entitled to the maximum allowance of 20 per cent. of the Light Dues paid.


  1. 61 & 62 Vict. c. 44.