sage between
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and to approach the North Pole,"
three persons well versed in the sciences of Mathematics, Astronomy,
or Navigation, were appointed as a Resident Committee of the Board
of Commissioners for discovery of the Longitude at sea, and a
Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac and of Chronometers was also
appointed, with such salaries for the execution of those services as
his Majesty might, by any Order in Council, be pleased to direct; and,
whereas, your Majesty was in consequence, by your Order in Council of
the 27th of May, 1828, most graciously pleased to direct, that the three
said Resident Commissioners should be paid at the rate of 100L. a year
each; and by your further Order in Council, of the 31st October, 1818,
that the Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac should be allowed a
salary of 300L., and the Superintendent of Chronometers 100L. a year;
and, whereas, the act above mentioned has been repealed, and the Board
of Longitude abolished; and doubts have therefore arisen, whether the
said Orders in Council shall still continue in force; and whereas it
is expedient that the said appointments be continued; We beg leave most
humbly to submit to your Majesty, that your Majesty may be graciously
pleased, by your Order in Council, to direct that the said offices
of Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, and of Superintendent of
Chronometers; and also the three persons before-mentioned as a Resident
Committee, to advise with the Commissioners for executing the Office
of Lord High Admiral, on all questions of discoveries, inventions,
calculations, and other scientific subjects, be continued, with the same
duties and salaries, and under the same regulations as heretofore; and
further beg most humbly to propose, that such three persons to form
the Resident Committee, be chosen annually by the Commissioners for
executing the office of Lord High Admiral, from among the Council of the
Royal Society.

His Majesty, having taken the said Memorial into consideration, was
pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to approve thereof
and the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to
give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

(Signed) JAMES HILLER.

Thus, it appeared that the Admiralty were to choose three persons from
among the Council of the Royal Society, who were to have a hundred a
year each during the pleasure of the Admiralty.

Such an