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Folios 321-322: James Slade, HMS Experiment, Falmouth. Points out a contradiction...

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/2523/107

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This record is about the Folios 321-322: James Slade, HMS Experiment, Falmouth. Points out a contradiction... dating from 1810 Sept 13 in the series Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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ADM 1/2523/107
Date
1810 Sept 13
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Folios 321-322: James Slade, HMS Experiment, Falmouth. Points out a contradiction between the King's Proclamation and the Instructions for the Guidance of Officers on Impressment regarding age requirements for particular ratings and the payment of a Bounty. He has three men, Thomas Collins, William Covey and Joseph Garratty whom he believes are entitled to a Bounty but the Navy Board are refusing, under the King's Proclamation, to pay.

Folios 323-324: enclosure with folios 321-322. Letter dated 14 September 1810 by James Slade, HMS Experiment, Falmouth, to the Admiralty. Adds ages of the three men: Thomas Collins aged nineteen, William Covey aged eighteen and Joseph Garratty aged eighteen.

Folio 325: enclosure with folios 321-322. Copy of the Kings's Proclamation, 15 November 1809 regarding the payment of bounties.

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Cap S321
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