[Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 1800.] Printed Privy Council Order in Council, in the name of ‘W. Fawkener’, regarding ‘modes of Payment by Allotments, and other new Regulations respecting Tickets’.

1p, folio. On recto of the first leaf of a bifolium of watermarked laid paper. In fair condition, lightly aged, with slight wear and spotting to the extremities. With ‘(L.S.)’ at top right and at the foot the slug ‘Printed by G. Roberts, Admiralty Office.’ Headed: ‘At the Court at St. James’s, / The 28th of May, 1800. / PRESENT, / The King’s Most Excellent Majesty / in Council.’ Thirty-four lines of text, including a twenty-three line transcription of an Admiralty memorandum, in smaller type. Begins: ‘WHEREAS there was this Day read at the Board, a Memorial from the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 27th of this Instant, in the Words following, viz. / “The Principal Officers and Commissioners of Your Majesty’s Navy having represented to Us, that from the multiplicity of Business brought upon Captains of Your Majesty’s Ships, in the execution of the Provisions of the several Acts of Parliament, relative to the modes of Payment by Allotments, and other new Regulations respecting Tickets, it has become so very extensive that they are of Opinion some proper mode should be adopted for affording them relief;’ the suggested solution being tht ‘Captains should in future be required to make out only Three compleat Pay Books, a compleat Slop Book, and three Alphabets, with an open List on Pay Paper, of all Men actually mustered on board at the time the Pay Books are made out’. The order continues and concludes: ‘His Majesty having taken the said Memorial into Consideration, is pleased, with the Advice of His Privy Council, to approve of what is therein proposed, and to Order, as it is hereby Ordered, That the same be adopted and carried into Execution; And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, are to give the necessary directions therein accordingly. / W. FAWKENER.’