Certificates of Entry to be given thereto by other Registers without Fee, (Exception) and filed; Order of Entry,; and an Account of Proceedings yearly, or oftener, given to Admiralty,; who are to give Orders for selecting Men for the Service.

And bee itt further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Navy Office or such other X1Office as shall be appointed by His Majesty His Heires and Successors shall bee and bee called the Head Office whereunto and to the Register or Registers therein to bee appointed as aforesaid all other the Registers of and in the other Sea Ports and Maritime Townes and Places shall from tyme to tyme and without any Fee or Reward for the same (other than from His Majesty His Heires or Successors) make and give Certificates under theire respective Hands and Seales of the Number Names Places of Abode and Additions of all Seamen Watermen Fishermen Lightermen Bargemen Keelmen and Seafareing men that shall bee entred or registred within theire respective Offices and of the true Dayes and Tymes when such Entryes or Registrings were first made Which said Certificates shall from tyme to tyme bee transmitted unto the said Register or Registers in the said Navy Office or other Office as aforesaid and by him or them fyled in course of tyme as they came in And the Names of the Seamen Watermen Fishermen Lightermen Bargemen Keelmen and Seafareing men therein mentioned shall bee in order of tyme as they come in and without any undue Preference entred and registred there alsoe soe that in that Office the Number Names and Places of Habitation of all the Seamen Watermen Fishermen Lightermen Bargemen Keelmen and Seafareing men registred throughout the Kingdome and their respective tymes of their comeing in to bee registred may from tyme to tyme appeare a true Account of all which shall once in every Yeare or oftner (if required) bee made and given in Writeing by the said Officer or Officers att the Navy Office or other Office as aforesaid unto the Commissioners for executeing the Office of Lord High Admirall of England and to the Lord High Admirall of England for the tyme being who are to take effectuall Care and give such tymely and necessary Orders and Directions that such and soe many of them as they shall find most proper for His Majesties Service may from tyme to tyme in each Yeare bee ordered and disposed for the Service of the Fleete.