In case, upon your arrival at Shetland, you shall find that there is a greater likelyhood of raising Voluntier Seamen & Landmen on shore than on board the Tender you command, You are hereby required & directed, in addition to former Orders, to open a Rendezvous at such Place as you shall think most proper; hiring a convenient Room for that purpose & applying yourself with the utmost diligence to that Service; causing Bills to be printed & stuck up inviting such Voluntiers to repair thereto, and subsisting such as may enter at the rate of nine pence a day each 'til you have an opportunity of putting them on board the Tender; which is to be in full for their Lodging also.

The better to enable you to carry on the Service, you are to take on shore with you one of your Petty Officers & four of the Ten Seamen whom you have been directed to employ; allowing the Petty Officer one Shilling & nine pence a day for his, and the Seamen one Shilling & three pence a day each for their Subsistence; And you are at liberty to charge two Shillings & Nine pence a day for your own subsistence during the time you & they shall be respectively employed on shore as abovementioned; taking care however, not to open a Rendezvous unless you have a good expectation of raising more Men by so doing than by remaining on board the Tender, and not to continue on shore any longer than you shall find the Success answerable to such expectation; in order that all unnecessary Expence may be avoided.

As the nature of this Service may require some other Disbursements you are to use all passible frugality & good husbandry therein, as no unreasonable or unnecessary Expence will be allowed; And for your better guidance in the matter, you are to observe that your charges for the following Articles must not exceed the Rates against each exprest Vizt

Stationary Wares, printing, fixing up & dispensing invitation Bills not to exceed £1.10. .0 upon coming on Service for the first Month, nor to be more than 7s/6d P Month afterwards.

You are to draw upon the Navy Board for such Money as you shall have occasion for to carry on this 'Service, And to be very particular in keeping a regular Account of your Disbursements 'which you are to transmit to that Board Monthly; And, after you are recalled from this Service, y6u are as soon as possible, to deliver them a full Account of your Disbursements for the time you have been employed making Affidavit in the following form. Vizt

You are to transmit to the Navy Board, as well with your Monthly as also with your final Accounts, complete Lists of the Men you raise; shewing the times of their respective entries, as also when, and how, they are disposed of.²

Given &c 24th May 1776.

By &c P.S.