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CHAPTER IX
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Two copies of the watch bill will be posted in the steerage, and one in the after cabin.

Young gentlemen, I recommend you to study it, until you are perfectly familiar with its requirements." "How is it with the officers, Mr.Lowington ?" asked Paul Kendall, who was generally the spokesman for his companions.
"The officers are divided into watches in precisely the same manner as the crew.

To the starboard watch belong the first and third lieutenant, the second and fourth master, and the first and third midshipman, which makes one officer of each grade for each quarter watch," replied Mr.
Lowington.

"Their off-time and study-time correspond with those of the crew." It is quite possible that the officers and crew of the Young America understood the complicated arrangement of the principal.

If they did not, they could refer to the posted document; and, as we cannot deprive our readers of this privilege, we insert in full, the WATCH BILL.


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