Our High Court of Admiralty, or the Vice Ad-
miralty Court within our Dominions adjudicating
thereon, shall apportion to such Ally or Allies a
Share or Shares of the Proceeds of such Prize or
Prizes proportionate to the number of Officers and
Men, &c., present and employed on the part of
such Ally or Allies as compared with the number
of Officers and Men, &c., present and employed on
Our behalf in such Capture or Captures, without
reference to their respective Ranks, and the Share
or Shares so set apart for such Ally or Allies shall
be transmitted to such persons as may be duly
authorised on behalf of such Ally or Allies to re-
ceive the same.

Ships or Vessels, being in sight of the Prize, as
also of the Captor, under circumstances to cause
intimidation to the Enemy and encouragement to
the Captor, shall be alone entitled to share as
joint Captors.

After having deducted the portion set apart as
aforesaid for our Allies, a Distribution so far as
regards Her Majesty's Forces, shall be as follows:
The Flag Officer or Officers shall have One-
twentieth Part of the whole net Proceeds arising
from Prizes captured from the Enemy by any of
the Ships or Vessels under his or their command,
and of the Rewards conferred for the same, ac-
cording to the following conditions and modifica-
tions, save and except as hereinafter provided and
directed, that is to say,

When there is but one Flag Officer he shall
have the entire one-twentieth Part; when
two Flag Officers shall be sharing together
the Chief shall have two-thirds, and the
other Flag Officer shall have the remaining
one-third of the one-twentieth Part; and
when there shall be more than Two Flag
Officers, the Chief shall have one-half of
the said one-twentieth Part, and the re-
maining half shall be equally divided
among the junior Flag Officers; Commo-
dores of the First Class and Captains of
the Fleet to share as Flag Officers: Pro-
vided always, that no Flag Officer, unless
actually on board any of our Ships or Ves-
sels of War, and at the actual taking, sink-
ing, burning, or otherwise destroying any
Ship or Ships of War, Privateer or Pri-
vateers, belonging to the Enemy, shall
share in the distribution of any Head Mo-
ney or Bounty Money granted as a
Reward for taking, sinking, burning, or
otherwise destroying any such Ship or
Vessel of the Enemy.

That no Flag Officer commanding in any
Port of the United Kingdom shall share
in the Proceeds of any Prize captured from
the Enemy by any Ship or Vessel which
shall sail from or leave such Port by Order
of the Lord High Admiral, or of our Com-
missioners for executing the Office of Lord
High Admiral.

That when Ships or Vessels, under the
command of several Flag Officers belong-
ing to separate Stations shall be joint cap-
tors, each Flag Officer shall receive a pro-
portion of the one-twentieth part,
according to the number of Officers and
Men under the command of each
such Flag Officer; and when any Ship or
Vessel under orders from the Lord High
Admiral, or from our Commissioners for
executing the Office of Lord High Ad-
miral, are joint Captors with other Ships
or Vessels under a Flag or Flags, the like
Regulations as to the 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
the Superior Flag Officer shall not share in
any prize taken by the Inferior Flag Officer
before he has arrived within the limits of
that Station, unless the Inferior Officer
shall have received some Order directly
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 the intention of returning to
the Station as soon as such Service is
performed, shall share in any Prize taken
by Our Ships or Vessels left behind after
he has passed the limits of the Station,
or after he has surrendered the Command
to another Flag Officer appointed by the
Admiralty to command in chief upon such
Station.

An Inferior Flag Officer quitting any Sta-
tion (except when detached by Orders
from his Commander-in-Chief upon a spe-
cial Service, accompanied with orders to
return to such Station as soon as the Ser-
vice has been performed) shall have no
share in Prizes taken by the Ships and
Vessels remaining 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 by such Inferior Officer, or by Ships
or Vessels under his immediate command,
after he has quitted the 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 Prize or Prizes taken out of the limits
of that Station by any Ship or Vessel
under the command of a Flag Officer
of any other Station, or under Orders from
Our Commissioners of the Admiralty, un-
less such Commander-in-Chief or Flag
Officer is expressly authorised by our
said Commissioners to take the command
of that Station in which the Prize or
Prizes is or are taken, and shall actually
have taken upon him such command.

Every Commodore having a Captain under
him shall be esteemed a Flag Officer with
respect to the twentieth part of Prizes
taken, whether he be commanding in chief
or serving under command.

The First Captain to the Admiral and Com-
mander-in-Chief of our Fleet, and also the
First Captain to any Flag Officer appointed
to command a Fleet of ten Ships of the
Line or upwards, shall be deemed to be a
Flag Officer for the purpose of sharing in
Prize, and shall be entitled to share there-
in 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 who shall have more commis-
sions than one shall be entitled entitled to share
in such Prize or Prizes according to the
share allotted to him by the above-men-
tioned distribution in respect to his supe-
rior commission or office.

And with reference to other Officers it is to be
noted that a Captain, Commander, or other Com-
manding Officer of a Ship or Vessel, shall be
deemed to be under the command of a Flag when