MASTER-MARINERS. bound, the master shall maintain them: and if the master advances or lends them any money, he may pay himself by deducting it out of their wages. If the ship is not loaden home, the master is not obliged to maintain them. Art. LVI. ART. LIII. The masters may not alienate or sell any part of their provisions or furniture until the voyage is made, and when they do, the owners shall be preferred to any other in the sale of them. Masters canprovisions during the voyage. not sell their ART. LIV. The mariners shall not take any grains of salt belonging to the ship's loading, but shall put some aboard for their own use, with the knowledge and consent of the merchant or others concerned, on pain of being severely punished. ART. LV. The master or the pilot may each load 12 barrels on their particular account; the other officers six each, and the seamen four each; the cook and the boys two each.* Freight alofficers and lowed to the crew. ART. LVI. If a master, to displease his owners, sells his part Master dis * This is what is called portage in France, where 12 barrels make a last, and one last 2 tons. posing of his ship. MASTER-PART-OWNERS. Art. LIX. of a ship for more than it is worth, the said part shall be appraised by men of experience; after which the owners may take it or leave it at the price it was appraised at, as they think fit ART. LVII. Master fraudulently borrowing money on bottomry. If a master, fraudulently, shall borrow money upon bottomry, and mortgage his ship for it, or stay with it in any port a long time, and sell it, together with the merchandize, the said master shall be incapable of having the command of a ship afterwards, and never be admitted into any city, but shall be punished without mercy. Master may borrow money on bottomry, ART. LVIII. A master being at home, may not borrow any more money on bottomry, than his own part of the pledging his ship is worth; if he does, the other shares of the ship shall not be liable for it; neither shall he take any freight without the knowledge and consent of the part of the ship. owners. ART. LIX. Disputes between part owners of ships. If the owners are at variance, and cannot agree about the freight of their ship, that opinion shall carry it, which has the majority on its side by two or three. The master may also in such case, take up money upon bottomry, as well on their shares who do not consent, as on theirs who do. a Laws of Oleron, art. xlv. A master being in a strange country, if necessity drives him to it, may take up money on bottomry, if he cannot get it without, and the owners shall bear the charge of it. a Laws of Oleron, art. xxvii, and Laws of Wisbuy, art. xlv. Money may the master on bottomry for be taken by necessaries. INDEX TO THE APPENDIX OF VOLUME FIRST.* A PAGE. xviii xix lxxxvi lxxxi lxxxvi Anchorage of vessels in port. Average. Goods thrown overboard from a vessel in distress Masts, cables, &c. cut away in distress must be charged as an average. Merchandize thrown over-board an average. come an average. - - Masters must contribute to average on goods thrown over-board. Expenses of taking goods out of an over-loaded ves- Who are answerable for injuries done to it while un- lx xxiii xxiv xlv xlv lxxxvi taken out of ships striking, to be averaged. Expenses of goods taken out of a vessel over-loaded to be * For the Index to the Admiralty Decisions, see vol. II. p |