An Act to amend an Act of the Eleventh Year of King George the Fourth, for amending and consolidating the Laws relating to the Pay of the Royal Navy.
WHEREAS by the Eighteenth Section of the Act of Eleventh of George the Fourth, Chapter Twenty, Provisions are made for the Payment of Wages and Pay of the Officers and Seamen of the Royal Navy, and by such Section it is, among other things, enacted, that there shall always be left Six Months Wages in arrear and unpaid over and above the Wages accruing to the Time during which the Ship's Books shall have been preparing and examining, but that whenever any Ship shall return home in order to be ...