2.  To the commander of a division of a fleet or squadron, a sum equal to one-fiftieth of any prize money awarded to a vessel of the division under his command, to be paid from the moiety due the United States, if there be such moiety; if not, from the amount awarded the captors.

3.  To the fleet captain, one-hundredth part of all prize money awarded to any vessel of the fleet in which he is serving, in which case he shall share in proportion to his pay, with the other officers and men on board such vessel.

4.  To the commander of a single vessel, one-tenth of all the prize money awarded to the vessel.

5.  After the foregoing deductions, the residue is distributed among the others doing duty on board, and borne upon the books of the ship, in proportion to their respective rates of pay.

All vessels of the navy within signal distance of the vessel making the capture, and in such condition as to be able to render effective aid if required, will share in the prize.  Any person temporarily absent from his vessel may share in the captures made during his absence.  The prize court determines what vessels shall share in a prize, and also whether a prize was superior or inferior to the vessel or vessels making the capture.

The share of prize money awarded to the United States is set apart forever as a fund for the payment of pensions to naval officers, seamen and marines entitled to pensions.

CHAPTER XLV.

Spanish dissensions at home.

Spain Threatened with Interior Difficulties—­Danger that the Crown Might Be Lost to the Baby King of Spain—­Don Carlos and the Carlists Are Active—­Castelar Is Asked to Establish a Republic—­ General Weyler as a Possible Dictator—­History of the Carlist Movement and Sketch of “the Pretender.”

While these events were in progress in the international relations of the United States and Spain, with a threat of a hopeless war hanging over the latter, the embarrassments of the government of the peninsular kingdom as to the conflict of its own affairs at home multiplied daily.  Altogether aside from the prospective operations of the war itself the Queen Regent and her Ministry had more than one local difficulty to face.

It was frankly recognized in their inner councils that a succession of Spanish defeats, in all probability, would lose the throne to the dynasty and that the boy king would never wear the crown of his father.  A second threat of danger was that in the midst of difficulties abroad there would be an uprising of the adherents of Don Carlos “The Pretender,” who would take advantage of the situation to start a civil war and seize the authority.  In addition to all this, the republicans of Spain, growing more restless under the misgovernment they saw, united in an address to Castelar, who was formerly the president of the Spanish republic, urging that he declare the