for unless such documents are delivered into this Office early, delay in the payment must unavoidably ensue.
As it sometimes happens that Officers apply personally for their half-pay or retired-pay, without having previously sent in their declarations or certificates as required by the usual advertisement, any delay or inconvenience to which they might be subject by this oversight, it is in the power of the Officers themselves to prevent, by an adherence to the existing regulations.
Under the authority of the Statutes relating to the pay of the Navy, besides the above-mentioned modes, Officers may receive their half-pay or retired-pay in any of the following ways, viz.
which case they are to give notice thereof, by letter, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, marked, in the corner, "Half-pay, or Retired-pay, Accountant-General," and thereupon the proper form of a bill of exchange
will be sent to them.remittance bill, payable to them at or in the neighbourhood of their residence, by the Collector
of Customs or Excise.at a Dock-yard, where there is an
establishment of Pay Clerks.In either of which two latter cases, they must give a like notice to the Secretary of the Admiralty, marked in the same manner, and a remittance bill or extract, will thereupon be made out and transmitted to them.
In all cases, the Officer signifying his desire of payment is to state at the foot of his letter, his Christian and surnames, his rank, and a full description of his residence.
Mem.—Bills of exchange drawn under or by virtue of the Act of II Geo. 4, cap. 20, are not liable to the stamp duty.
No persons residing out of His Majesty's dominions are entitled to the privileges of this Act.
CHARLES MACINTOSH, of Cross Basket, near Glasgow, Esq. hereby gives notice, that he intends forthwith to apply to His Majesty in Council for a prolongation, for the further term of seven years, or such other term, not exceeding seven years, as His Majesty shall please, of his respective terms of sole using and vending his invention of "a process and manufacture whereby the texture of hemp, flax, wool, cotton, and silk, and also leather, paper, and other substances, may be rendered impervious to water and air," that is to say:
His term of sole using and vending his said invention granted to him by certain letters patent, bearing date the 17th day of June 1823, for that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the dominion of Wales, the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in all the British colonies and plantations abroad:
And also his term of sole using and vending his said invention granted by certain letters patent, bearing date the 6th day of May 1823, for that part of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain and Ireland called Scotland:
And also his term of sole using and vending his said invention granted by certain letters patent, bearing date the 15th day of August 1823, for that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Ireland.
And the said Charles Macintosh hereby gives further notice, that he intends to apply, on the 16th day of February next, to the Right Honourable the Lords comprising the Judicial Committee of His Majesty's Honourable Privy Council, for a time to be fixed for hearing the matters of his petitions for such prolongation of his said several terms as hereinbefore mentioned; and all persons desirous of being heard, in opposition to the prayers of his said petitions, are hereby required to enter caveats at the Privy Council-Office on or before the said 16th day of February next.
- Charles Macintosh.
Admiralty, Somerset-Place, December 30, 1835.
THE Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give notice, that on Thursday the 21st of January next, at two o'clock in the afternoon, they will put up to sale, at their Office in Somerset-place, His Majesty's ships and vessels hereunder mentioned, namely:
- Lying at Deptford.
- Dover, 5th rate, 692 tons burthen,
- Lying at Chatham.
- Martial, brig, 183 tons burthen.
- Surly, lighter, 137 tons burthen.
- Lying at Sheerness.
- Dispatch, brig, 388 tons burthen.
- Mercury, tender, 40 tons burthen.
- Lying at Portsmouth.
- Merlin, sloop, 395 tons burthen.
- Rifleman, brig, 387 tons burthen.
- Duchess of York, tender, 49 tons burthen.
- Lying at Plymouth.
- Captivity, 74 guns, 1613 tons burthen.
- Elk, brig, 386 tons burthen.
- Carnation, sloop, 385 tons burthen.
- Barracouta, brig, 235 tons burthen.
- Breakwater, lighter, No. 10, 28 tons burthen.
Persons wishing to view the ships and vessels, must apply to the Superintendents of the Dockyards for notes of admission for that purpose.
Catalogues and conditions of sale may be had here and at the Yards.
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