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All supernumeraries holding ranks in the Ser-
vice above the ranks or ratings specified in the
Fifth Class of this our Proclamation who have been
ordered to do duty in any of our Ships or Vessels
by the Lord High Admiral, or by our Commis-
sioners for executing the office of Lord High Ad-
miral, by the Senior Officer of the Fleet or
Squadron, or if none senior then by the Captain
or Commanding Officer of the capturing Ship or
Vessel, if not by special authority employed in
higher capacities, shall share according to the
rank which they respectively hold in the Service;
but in all cases to qualify them for so sharing,
and not merely as supernumeraries in the Ninth
Class, due notation of their being thus respec-
tively ordered to do duty must have been made
on the Muster Books.

And with respect to supernumeraries of ratings
in the Service below the denominations of those
specified in the Fourth Class of this our Procla-
mation, and who at full victuals are engaged in
the ordinary duties of the Ship, it is our will and
pleasure that they shall always share according
to the ratings which they bear in the Service.

And in order that our Royal Intentions herein
may be duly carried into effect, we further direct
that when any capture is made from the Enemy,
the Captains or Commanding Officers of our Ships
or Vessels of War making the same shall trans-
mit or cause to be transmitted, as soon as may be
to the Secretary to the Admiralty, a true and
perfect list of all the Officers, Seamen and Marines,
Soldiers, and others, who were actually on board
on the occasion, accompanied by a separate list
containing the names of those belonging to the crew
who were absent on duty or otherwise at the
time, specifying the cause of such absence, each
list to contain the quality of the service of each
person, together with the respective descriptions
of men taken from the Description Book of the
Ship or Vessel, and their several ratings, to be
subscribed by the Captain or Commanding Officer
and three or four more of the chief officers on
board.

And when the list of those actually on board,
and the separate list of persons absent though be-
longing to the Ship or Vessel, shall have been ve-
rified on examination with the Muster Books
lodged as Official Records, the Accountant-Gene-
ral of our Navy shall, upon request, grant to the
agent or agents nominated or appointed by the
captors, a certificate that such lists are correct or
have been corrected as occasion may require, in
order that distribution of the Prize or other Pro-
ceeds may be duly made.

And in the event of difficulty arising with re-
spect to any of the Regulations hereby ordered,
or if any case should occur not herein provided
for, or not sufficiently provided for, we are pleased
hereby to authorise the Lord High Admiral, or
our Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral for the time being, to issue
such directions thereupon as may appear just and
expedient; which directions shall have the same
force and effect as if specially provided for in this
our Royal Proclamation.

Given at Our Court at Bucking-
ham Palace, this Twenty-ninth
Day of March, in the Year of
Our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-four, and in
the Seventeenth Year of Our
Reign.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

IX.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM
PALACE,

The 7th Day of April, 1854.

Present,

THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN
COUNCIL.

Order in Council extending to India and the Colo-
nies the Indulgence granted to Russian Vessels
by Her Majesty's Order in Council of March
29th, 1854.

7th April, 1854.

Her Majesty being compelled to declare War
against His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all
the Russias, and being desirous to lessen as much
as possible the evils thereof, is pleased, by and
with the advice of Her Privy Coun-
cil, to order, and it is hereby ordered, that Rus-
sian Merchant Vessels which, at the time of the
publication of this order, shall be in any Ports or
Places in Her Majesty's Indian territories under
the Government of the East India Company, or
within any of Her Majesty's Foreign or Colonial
Possessions, shall be allowed thirty days from the
time of the publication of this order in such In-
dian Territories or Foreign or Colonial Possession
for loading their cargoes and departing from such
Ports or Places; and that such Russian Merchant
Vessels, if met at sea by any of Her Majesty's
Ships, shall be permitted to continue their voyage
if, on examination of their papers, it shall appear
that their cargoes were taken on board before the
expiration of the above term; provided that no-
thing herein contained shall extend, or be taken
to extend, to Russian Vessels having on board
any Officer in the Military or Naval Service of
the Enemy, or any article prohibited or contra-
band of War, or any Despatch of or to the Rus-
sian Government.

And it is hereby further ordered by Her Ma-
jesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Coun-
cil as aforesaid, that any Russian Merchant Ves-
sel which, prior to the twenty-ninth day of
March now last past, shall have sailed from any
Foreign Port, bound for any Port or Place
in any of Her Majesty's Indian Territories, or
Foreign or Colonial Possessions, shall be permit-
ted to enter such Port or Place, and to discharge
her cargo, and afterwards forthwith to depart
without molestation; and that any such Vessel, if
met at sea by any of Her Majesty's Ships, shall
be permitted to continue her voyage to any Port
not blockaded.

And the Right Honourable the Lords Com-
missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, and Her Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for War and
the Colonies, the Right Honourable the Commis-
sioners for the Affairs of India, and all Governors,
Officers, and Authorities whom it may concern,
in Her Majesty's East Indian, Foreign, and Co-
lonial Possessions, are to give the necessary
directions herein as to them may respectively. ap-
pertain.

C. C. GREVILLE.