STATE PAPERS. 



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not state the good and meritorious 

 conduct of the officer for the spe- 

 cified period, such time is to be 

 disallowed him ; bilt if the war- 

 rant officer thinks he has any rea- 

 son to complain thereof, he may 

 address his complaint tu our se- 

 cretary, for our inquiry and final 

 decision ; and in this case, we sub- 

 mit tliat we be authorized to allow 

 the time or not, as we may judge 

 proper. 



If your Royal Highness shall be 

 graciously pleased to sanction the 

 foregoing propositions on this 

 branch of the subject, we shall be 

 enal led to superannuate several 

 hundreds of worn-out and dis- 

 abled officer*, who are at present 

 on the ordinary, and of whom we 

 cannot clear the list (which ought 

 to be etTective) with justice and 

 humanity to these old servants of 

 the public, while the present par- 

 tial and inadequate rates of supe- 

 rannuation exist ; but we have 

 farther the satisfaction of stating 

 to your Royal Highness, that this 

 benefit to the naval service will 

 hot ci eate any additional expense 

 to the coimtry ; as the saving of 

 the cost now incurred for victual- 

 ling and keeping in full pay so 

 large a number of inefficient per- 

 sons, will not only compensate 

 the whole additional expense of 

 the arianj^ement relative to war- 

 rant officers, wliich we thus hum- 

 bly submit to your Royal High- 

 ness's gracious consideration, but 

 will even diminish consiideiably 

 the expense which, on tlie peace 

 establishment, may arise from the 

 otlier ])r(ipnsitions which we have 

 submitted 



IV. We now beg leave humbly 

 to represent to your Royal High- 

 ness, that having had under con- 



VoL. LIX. 



sideration the numbers and ratings 

 of the petty officers of his Majes- 

 ty's fleet, we have found that tliere 

 are several useful duties for which 

 no other ratings are provided ; 

 while, on the other hand, several 

 ratings are preserved in the table 

 which have become obsolete, and 

 which ha«e no duties now attached 

 to them, and which are now, we 

 have reason to think, given to 

 men whom the several captains 

 think deserving of higher pay, and 

 for whom they nave no appropriate 

 ratings. 



With a view therefore, of re- 

 medying these irregularities, and 

 of giving fair encouragement to 

 that class of men, the petty offi- 

 cers, we humbly sulimit that your 

 Royal Highness may be pleased to 

 sanction the establishment of the 

 following additional ratings, the 

 effective duties of which are now 

 performed without any coiTespond- 

 ing rating : 



Admiral's Coxswaiii, 

 Coxswain of the Launch, 



of the Pinnace, 



Captain of tl-e Hold, 

 Yeoman of the Signals, 

 Cooper's Mate, 



Crew, 



Guimer's Yeoman, 

 Carpenter's Yeoman, 

 Captain's Steward, 



Cook, 



Ward or Gun-room Steward. 



Cook, 



Ship's Tailor. 



Two of these ratings have been 

 already established by Order in 

 Council ; but we have neverthe- 

 less included them in the above 

 list, because they are not in the 

 geneial table of ratings, and in 

 order to lay before your Royal 



3 A Highness, 



