Law of the Sea

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CODE of the PRIVATEERS

- GREENHAUL COMPANY

ASSIGNED THIS DAY

unto ALL WITNESSES

• Any sailor caught below deck with open ﬂame, magical or mundane, will suﬀer 10 lashes.

• No sailor is to bring aboard a husband, wife, child, person of low virtue, or any passenger unbeknownst to the captain. Both sailor and passenger face marooning.

• Every sailor must do her fair share of

work, and neither shirk her duty nor pass

oﬀ work to another, lest she face 20 lashes.

A ship’s bard may rest 1 day per week, but

must stand ready to entertain on all others.

• Every sailor receives an equal share of food and drink, and 1 ration of rum every day.

• Any sailor found drunk on duty shall face

10 lashes. Any sailor too drunk to function

eﬀectively during battle shall be killed.

• A sailor who suspects a hazard, be it storm cloud, sea monster, or enemy ship, must raise the alarm immediately. Any sailor

who sees an unfamiliar sea creature must

inform the captain immediately.

• Any pirate found stealing from crewmates shall take 30

lashes and be put ashore at port.

• The 1st person who spots a sail shall have first pick of its loot.

• Every member of the crew gets an equal share of treasure.

Anyone caught taking more than his fair share of loot,

or refusing to report its discovery in a timely manner,

shall be marooned.

• The captain receives extra shares of

any treasure, as do shipwrights, carpenters, and officers

to lesser degrees.

• No crew member shall hide his abilities from the crew.

A sailor who can perform magic shall use his abilities on

behalf of the ship.

• All crew members must obey the captain and his officers.

• A sailor must not speak ill of the dead, call upon chaos,

nor blaspheme another's religion lest they summon restless spirits to the ship.

• A sailor shall not speak to any creature of the

sea without the captain’s permission.

~• I. Every man has 1 vote in affairs of the moment; has equal title to the fresh provisions, or strong

liquors, at any time seized, and may use them at pleasure, unless a scarcity makes it necessary, for

the good of all, to vote a retrenchment. Every sailor has an equal right to vote in decisions put to

the crew by the captain

II. Every man to be called fairly in turn, by list, on board of prizes because over and above their proper

share, they are allowed a shift of clothes. But if they defraud the company to the value of even one

silver guinea in plate, jewels, or money, they shall be marooned. If any crewman rob another he shall have his

nose and ears slit, and be put ashore where he shall be sure to encounter hardships.

(ie clothes & boots can be looted on sight, if combat be finished, but coin and goods must be settled and squared with the company)

III. None shall game for money with other crew, aboard or ashore; either with dice or cards.

IV. The lights and candles to be put out by eight o'clock at night: if any of the crew, after that hour,

still remain inclined for drinking, they shall sit upon the open deck without lights.

V. Each man shall keep his piece, cutlass, and pistols at all times clean and ready for action.

VI. No boy or woman to be allowed amongst them. If any man were to be found seducing any of these for sex,

and carrying them to sea in disguise, he shall suffer death.

VII. He that shall desert the ship or his quarters in time of battle shall be punished by death or marooning.

VIII. None shall strike another aboard the ship, but every man's quarrel shall be ended on shore by

sword or pistol in this manner: at the word of command from the Quartermaster, each man being

previously placed back to back, shall walk an agreed upon number of paces, turn and fire immediately.

If any man do not, the Quartermaster shall knock the piece out of his hand. If both miss their aim,

they shall take to their cutlasses, and he that draws first blood shall be declared the victor. And once done shall

be the end of the matter, peace amongst the crew shall reign.

IX. No man to talk of breaking up their way of living, till each had shared £101. If in order to do this,

any man should lose a limb, or become a cripple in their service, which being unable to be healed,

he was to have 800 pieces of eight from the common stock, and for lesser hurts, proportionately.

X. The Captain and Quartermaster shall each receive more shares of a prize: as do the Master Gunner and

Boatswain, all other officers and private gentlemen of fortune one share each.

XI. The musicians shall have rest on their Sabbath Day only, by right, on all other days, by favor only.

Thus may it be that the Green-Haul Company shall go on into history as the greatest buccaneer crew ;

with every minstrel first to memorize their poems and tales, for even if a pirate shall be swallowed up

by the cruel queen of the sea, yet shall he live on - if his fame be well-won.

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