54-2 APPENDIX. 



V. 



COPY OF THE ENLISTMENT OF THE MARINES. 



We the subscribers, non-commissioned officers and privates of 

 marines, do and each of us doth hereby agree to and with Tliomas 

 Ap Catesby Jones, Captain of the United States Navy, in manner and 

 form following, that is to say : In the first place, we do hereby agree, 

 for the consideration hereafter mentioned, to enter into the South Sea 

 Surveying and Exploring Service of the United States, and in due 

 and seasonable time to repair on board such armed vessel or vessels 

 as may be ordered on that service, and to the utmost of our power and 

 ability respectively to discharge our several services or duties, and in 

 every thing to be conform.able and obedient to the several requirings 

 and lawful commands of the naval officers who may from time to 

 time be placed over us. 



Secondly. We do also oblige and subject ourselves to serve during 

 the term of the cruise, and we do severally oblige ourselves by these 

 articles to comply with and be subject to such rules and discipline of 

 the Navy of the United States, as are or that may be established by 

 the Congress of the United States. 



Thirdly. The said Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, for and in behalf of 

 the United States, doth hereby covenant and agree to and with the 

 said non-commissioned officers and privates of the marines who have 

 hereunto signed their names, and each of them shall, be paid in 

 consideration of such services, the amount per month which, in the 

 column hereunto annexed, is set opposite to each of their names 

 respectively, and likewise to advance to each and every of them, 

 three months' bounty, the receipt whereof they do hereby acknow- 

 ledge, and that they shall be punctually discharged at the expiration 

 of the term of their enlistment, or as soon thereafter as each vessel of 

 the Expedition shall return to a port of safety in the United States. 



, The foregoing is a true copy of the terms of agreement entered into 

 between Captain Thomas Ap Catesby Jones and certain non-commis- 

 sioned officers and privates of marines, of the late Exploring Service 

 of the United States ; the signatures of whom are witnessed by com- 



