were not satisfied, and did not think that the number of men by this means transferred to the Navy had been at all proportionate to the encouragement which they had held out.  They therefore altered the previous arrangement so as to embrace those cases only in which the exertions of the cruisers’ commanders had been of an exceptionally distinguished nature.  Thus during 1812 and the succeeding years, until some further provision might be made, it was decided that “the sum of L500 will be paid to such person commanding a Revenue cutter as shall in any one year transfer to the Navy the greatest number of smugglers, not being less than twenty.”  The sum of L300 was to be paid to the persons commanding a Revenue cutter who in any year should transfer the next greatest number of smugglers, not being less than fifteen.  And L200 were to be paid to the commander who in one year should have transferred the third largest, not being less than ten.  This decision was made in January of 1812, and in the following year it was directed that in future the rewards granted to the commanders of the Revenue cruisers for delivering the greatest number of smugglers should be made not exclusively to the commanders but distributed among the commander, officers, and crew according to the scale which has already been given on an earlier page in this volume.  At the end of the year 1813 it was further decided that when vessels and boats of above four tons measurement were seized in ballast and afterwards broken up, not owing to their build, their construction, or their denomination, but simply because they had been engaged in smuggling, the seizing officers should become entitled to 30s. a ton.

There was also a system instituted in the year 1808 by which the widows of supervisors and surveyors of Riding officers and commanders of cruisers were allowed L30 per annum, with an additional allowance of L5 per annum for each child until it reached the age of fifteen.  The widows of Riding officers, mates of cutters, and sitters of boats specially stationed for the prevention of smuggling were allowed L25 per annum and L5 for each child until fifteen years old.  In the case of the widows of mariners they were to have L15 a year and L2, 10s. for each child till the age of fifteen.  And one finds among those thus rewarded Ann Sarmon, the widow, and the three children of the commander of the Swan cutter stationed at Cowes; the one child of the mate of the Tartar cutter of Dover; the widow of the mate of the Dolphin of St. Ives; the widow of the Riding officer at Southampton; the widow and children of the commander of the cutter Hunter at Yarmouth; and likewise of the Hunter’s mate.