338] ANNUAL REGISTER, i790. 
ing the charge upon the treafurer; 
in which ledger every article of 
this charge is entered, either from 
the letters direCting the payment, 
or from the bills themfelves: a copy 
of this charge is figned by three 
commifioners of the victualling, 
which is the warrant for the figna- 
ture of the three commiffioners of 
the navy, upon that copy which is 
fent to the auditors office. 
The difcharge is checked in this 
manner:—every bill paid by the 
treafurer is made out in fome 
branch or other of the navy, vic- 
tualling, or fick and hurt offices, or 
in the yards or out ports: if made 
out in one of the offices, it under- 
goes one,pr, if neceflary, more ex- 
azminations in that office: if made 
out-at the yards, it is fent to, and 
examined by, two clerks in the 
office of the controller of the navy: 
if made out at the out-ports, it is 
fent to, and examined in, the office 
of the accountant for cafh in the 
victualling office. Ali bills, where- 
ever made out, are entered in re- 
gifters; the navy bills in the con- 
troller’s office; tlie victualling bills 
in the office of the controller of the 
victualling ; and the fick and hurt 
bills in the fick and hurt office; 
and when affigned for payment, 
they are entered again in affigning 
books, kept for thofe purpofes in 
the feyeral offices. .'‘The treafurer’s 
feStions, with the original bills 
themfelves, are fent to thefe feve- 
ral offices, to be compared and ex- 
amined With the entries made in 
their books: the navy fections are 
examined with the entries in the 
affigning book in the office—of 
the controller of the treafurer’s 
accounts, and afterwards compared 
with the original bills themfelves ; 
the: victualling fections are exa- 
amined with the entrics in the affign- 
ing book inthe office of the con- 
troller of the victualling ; the fick 
_and hurt fections, with the entries 
in the afligning book in the fick 
and hurt office, and they are after- 
wards compared with the original 
bills in the office of the controller 
of the treafurer’s accounts. 
For every fhip five books are 
made out, copies of each other,’ 
lodged in three different depart- 
ments of the navy offic 2 in that 
branch of the office of ntroller 
of the treafurer’s accounts, called 
the ticket ofice; two in the office 
of the controller of the navy, one 
of them for the commiflioner who 
controls the payments, the other 
for the controller’s clerk wha at- 
tends him; and two in the office of 
the treafurer: this book contains 
the names, the times of fervice, and 
the defalcations, of every perfon. 
belonging to that fhip, together 
with the full and nett wages of all 
perfons who are~paid upon that 
book; all thefe feveral fums are 
calculated, examined, and checked, 
hoth in the ticket office and in the 
office of the controller of the navy; 
and the full fum to be allowed the 
treafurer, for the pay of that fhip, 
is entered at the end of the fhip’s 
buok, and is the fame fum in the 
treafurer’s ledger, which he claims 
to be allowed him for the payment 
of that fhip. . 
When a fhip is paid,.a commif- 
fioner of the navy, two clerks from 
the treafurer’s office, and one from 
each of the controller’s offices, at- 
tend, each with his book; by 
which means they are a check upon 
each other: three of thefe books 
are made up at the fame time, and 
compared together; and remain af- 
terwards, one in the office of the 
treafurer, another in that of the 
controller, and the third in ‘that i 
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