articles, that nothing may be stolen or carried away: And to be particularly careful that your arms are kept clean, and at all times in good order, on pain of being mulked when such arms are inspected and found rusty or unserviceable.

VI. Each of you being furnished with a great coat at the expence of the Institution; you are to be answerable for it, as well as for your arms, if from any act of carelessness or inattention they are lost or stolen.

Lastly-As the Surveyors are instructed to make regular reports of the good or bad conduct of Watermen in the service of this Institution, it is to be understood that while those who conduct themselves meritoriously, will receive protection and encouragement from the Magistrates, who will order their services to be registered; on the contrary, such Watermen as are careless and inattentive in the execution of their duty, or who act contrary to these instructions, will be discharged to make room for others more deserving.

INSTRUCTIONS to Master Lumpers who enter into engagements to discharge Ships under the Cognizance of the Marine Police Institution.

HAVING taken a solemn Oath to be faithful to the trust reposed in you as Foreman of the Lumpers you employ, to discharge the respective Ships assigned you under this institution, Having also solemnly promised and sworn that you will not connive at any plunder, or be concerned yourself in any evil practice; but that you will not only restrain the persons under your controul, from acts of pillage and wilful breakage

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breakage of casks and packages; but that with a view to detec. tion, you will regularly search or assist in searching all Lumpers on their leaving the ship in which they are employed. Having further promised and sworn to obey the Orders and Instructions of the Magistrates with a view to the prevention of all abuses in the discharge of the ships and vessels assigned you. In complying with these solemn engagements you are carefully and punctually to attend to the following

INSTRUCTIONS.

I. You are to comply strictly with the Conditions explained in the printed Rules, to be subscribed by the Ship-master and yourself, on your first undertaking the discharge. You are to select the best men that can be found, both as Holders and Deckers, rejecting all who are known to be notorious bad characters. You are to stipulate with each Lumper you employ, that he shall carry with him his breakfast and dinner on board, and shall not be permitted, on any pretence, to leave the ship until the work for the day is finished, that every ex ertion shall be used to promote dispatch in discharging the ship, and in preventing the wilful breakage of Casks, whereby Sugar, Coffee, or other articles may be spilled or wasted.

II. You will be careful that the Lumpers you employ shall have no apparel with large pouches or pockets, calculated to conceal plunder; nor any small pumps known by the name of Figgers, Bladders with Nozles, pouches, bags, socks, or vessels of any kind, whereby plunder may be obtained, concealed, and conveyed away. If such articles are found, it will be your duty to detain the same, and convey information immediately to the Magistrates, and in the mean time to give charge of the Offender or Offenders to the Ship Conftables.

III. It is understood that during the six months from LadyDay to Michaelmas, you are to begin working at Six o'Clock in the Morning, and not to leave off until Six in the Evening: And

And from Michaelmas to Lady-Day, to commence work at Sun-rise, and to suspend it at Sun-set: Your men to be allowed half an hour to Breakfast, and one hour to Dinner.

IV. The first labour to be performed when Lumpers go on board of any ship for the purpose of discharging the Cargo, is to unbend the sails get down the top-gallant masts and yardsto strike yards and top-masts-to unreeve the running rigging -put out boats and sails-to build up a stage for cables if required-and then to proceed in the discharge. When finished, the ship to be washed completely, and left in every respect in good condition, and the fire-wood to be piled if required by the Commanding Officer on board.

V. In cases where Rum makes a part of the Cargo, the Puncheons and Hogsheads in which it is contained, are to be struck down and placed in a proper situation to admit of being sampled, or if necessary, to be hoisted upon deck, to make room for the discharge of Sugars, and other Merchandise.

VI. During the discharge of any ship by means of Lumpers under your controul, it will become your duty to be present at all times, or to depute a trusty Person during your occasional absence, for whom you are to be responsible.

VII. As a Master Lumper acting under the cognizance of this Institution, it is to be understood that you are to be subject to the occasional visits of the Police Surveyors, who are to inspect your conduct, and report regularly whatever appears to them to be amiss, to the Superintendant, to whom is committed the management of the Lumping Department; whose duty it is to convey to the Magistrates all information he may receive tending to any infringement of your agreement, or any neglect of duty, who upon due investigation of the case, will make such orders as shall appear to them to be proper.

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And if it shall be found that you act in any respect unworthy of the trust reposed in you, you will be dismissed from the employment.

Lastly, The Superintendant of Lumpers for the time being, is instructed to make regular Reports of the good or bad conduct of Master Lumpers in the service of this Institution. It is to be understood, that all who conduct themselves meritorously, will receive protection and encouragement from the Magistrates, who will order their services to be placed upon a register to be kept for the purpose, in the Office for Lumpers.

On the contrary, such Master Lumpers as shall appear careless or inattentive, or shall act corruptly or contrary to the Instructions herein contained, will be immediately discharged to make room for others who are more deserving.

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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS on the whole of the preceding Instructions, to the Officers of the Marine Police Institution.

ON considering these Instructions, as they apply to the various classes of Officers employed in the different Departments of the Institution, the Reader will observe how much anxiety' is discovered, not only to ensure prudence and discretion in the execution of their Duty, but also to guard them against impurity and improper conduct.

To attain this object, not only have these Instructions been promulgated at different times, as experience suggested new objects requiring the attention of Magistrates; but they have been unceasingly accompanied, and enforced by the strongest injunctions, as often as occasions occurred, where such injunctions became necessary.

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Yet, under circumstances where men were suddenly collected together, and where such a multitude were to be employed almost at the same moment, the best efforts of those who conducted this important design could not ensure an universal purity of conduct. To expect this, would be to look for more than belongs to human nature. --Such however was the effect of the various precautions which were used, that the instances of impure conduct have been very few indeed; and where proofs have been adduced, the examples have been prompt and severe.

As the system has matured, the characters of men have been developed. Doubtful and inefficient Officers have been discharged, and those only retained against whom no well authenticated charge has been preferred.--Little doubt is therefore to be entertained, that by degrees such a selection will be practicable, as will secure a faithful and honest discharge of the trusts reposed in the various Officers employed; because no system heretofore devised admits of an equal accuracy of investigation, combined with the same power to overawe and to punish.

The whole of these Instructions have been communicated, and the nature of this part of the system detailed at greater length than might otherwise seem necessary, from a hope that the information which it conveys, might be useful to other great Commercial Ports. It is evident, indeed, from the applications which have been made to the Author, for information, from Liverpool and Hull, (where even Docks are established, as well as from other places where Commercial Property passes in transit, that mankind are nearly the same whereever similar temptations exist: and that a Police, applicable to the object of restraining the covetous dispositions, and the depraved morals of many of the lower classes of Nautical Labourers, seems equally necessary for the protection of Commercial Property, and the Security of the Revenue, wherever merchandise,