After one year scholars shall be excused from school two afternoons in each week, and the Commissioner shall direct one of the masters attendant to carry them one afternoon into the rigging house, storehouses, and sail lofts, and to take them afloat, etc. Article XXVIII. On another afternoon the master shipwright is to instruct them in ship construction, etc. Article XXIX. The Commissioner may order a vessel of small size to be placed near, and make the scholars rig and unrig her; and two guns are to be placed on board, with powder and shot and all accessories, with an experienced gunner from a ship-in-ordinary to instruct them. Article XXX. No scholar is to remain less than two, or more than three, years, except the sons of sea officers, who must remain three, and may remain five, years, unless they have finished their plan sooner and their parents desire them to go to sea. But they are not in any case to remain beyond the age of seventeen. In the first week of March each year an account of the qualification of each scholar is to be sent in, with a view to sending him to sea if qualified. Article XXXI. On a scholar being discharged to sea the master is to give a certificate of the time spent in the Academy, deducting times of absence (except three weeks each year), and time forfeited as punishment. Article XXXII. A scholar on leaving is to leave his arms with the fencing master. Article XXXIII. On scholars leaving, vacancies are to be filled and numbers kept up in each class. Article XXXIV. Scholars on joining his Majesty's ships shall be kept to the duties of seamen, but with the privilege of walking the quarter-deck, and shall be allotted a proper place to lie in, but no cabins; and shall be rated on the ship's books as "Volunteers by Order," and receive able seaman's pay. Article XXXV. The captain shall make Volunteers keep journals, and draw the appearance of headlands, coasts, bays, and such like; and the master, boatswain, and schoolmaster shall instruct them. Article XXXVI. After two years at sea the captain shall rate them midshipman ordinary--or midshipman, if qualified. Article XXXVII. Scholars shall have liberty while at Portsmouth to visit the Academy and be instructed there, and in the yard, gratis. Article XXXVIII. On returning from a foreign voyage they shall bring their journals to the master of the Academy for his inspection, and he will also examine them and represent to the Secretary to the Admiralty how he finds they have improved. Article XXXIX. The captain shall give a certificate on their leaving the ship as to sobriety, obedience, diligence, and skill; and also of the time they have served as Volunteer or midshipman. Article XL. When a Volunteer by Order is paid off, upon bringing his certificate of good behaviour to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty they may, if he desires it, give orders for him to have free use of the Academy. Article XLI.