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proclamation · 1846

Colonial Secretary E. Deas Thomson republishes at Sydney, 15 December 1846, Queen Victoria's Royal Proclamation of 19 May 1846 (Buckingham Palace) annulling William IV's 1836 scheme and fixing the distribution of naval prize money — proceeds of prizes taken from the enemy, customs seizures, slave-trade suppression bounties and captures of pirate vessels — one-sixteenth to flag officers and the remainder across thirteen classes from captains (100 shares) to boys of the second class (three-eighths).

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DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. THIS Excellency the GOVERNOR is pleased to direct the republication of the following Royal …

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New South Wales Government Gazette, No. 105, 15 December 1846.

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