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1-Every Man has a Vote in Affairs of Moment; has equal title to the fresh Provisions, or Strong Liquors, at any Time seized, and use of them at Pleasure, unless a Scarcity make it necessary, for the good of all, to Vote a Retrenchment.

 2-Every Man to be called fairly in turn, by List, on Board of Prizes, because, they were on these Occasions allowed a Shift of Clothes: But if they defrauded the Company to the Value of a Dollar, in Plate, Jewels, or Money, Marooning was their Punishment.

 3-No Person to Game at Cards or Dice, for Money.

 4-The Lights and Candles to be put out at eight O' Clock at Night: If any of the Crew, after that Hour, still remained inclined for Drinking, they were to do it on the open Deck

5- To keep their Piece, Pistols, and Cutlass clean, and fit for Service

 6-No Boy or Woman to be allowed amongst them. If any Man were found seducing any of the latter Sex, and carried her to Sea, disguised, he was to suffer Death.
 

7-To Desert the Ship, or their Quarters in Battle, was punished with Death, or Marooning.
 

8-No striking one another on Board, but every Man's Quarrels to be ended on Shore, at Sword and Pistol.

 9-No Man to talk of breaking up their Way of Living, till each had shared a 1000! If in order to this, any Man should lose a Limb, or become a Cripple in their Service, he was to have 800 Dollars, out of the public Stock, and for lesser Hurts, proportionally.

10- The Captain and Quarter-Master to receive two Shares of a Prize; the Master, Boatswain, and Gunner, one Share and a half, and other Officers, one and a Quarter.