Corsairs of the Kitchen
Company Code of 1721-Present day
Adapted by Llana Grossman, 2006
I. Every Person has a vote in affairs of 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.
II. The Kitchen Captain is to have two full Shares; the Prep Chef and the Dish Washer are to have one Share and one Half; The Guests of Honor, Friends, Family, and Gunner, one Share and one Quarter.
III. If any Person shall be found boast’n of or caught attempt’n to run away, or keep any Secret from the Company, he shall be maroon’d at the nearest Gas Station with one Bottle of Powder, one Bottle of Water, one small Arm, and single Shot.
IV. If any Man shall steal any Thing in the Company, or game, to the Value of a Piece of Eight, he shall be maroon’d or shot.
V. Lights and candles to be put out at eleven o'clock at night: if any crew, after that hour still remain’d inclined for drink’n, they be to do it out of doors with the exception of Holiday Soiree.
VI. To keep their piece, pistols, and cutlass clean and fit for service or be cut off from his Share.
VII. All that desert the ship or quarters, or be found cower’n in a Battle or Soiree, be punished with death or maroon’n.
VIII. That Person what strikes another whilst and where this code be in force, shall receive 10 Stripes on the bare Arse.
IX. No man to talk of break’n up their way with the Company till each has least a share of drink and serving of ration or lose half yer share to the crew ever after.
X. He what sees a Sail first, shall have the best Pistol or Small Arm aboard of her.
XI. The musicians may take rest on the Sabbath Day, but the other six days and nights, they gets none and go without special favour.
XII. If any Person shall lose a Joint in time of an Engagement, shall have 400 Pieces of Eight ($384); if a Limb, 800 ($768).
XIII. If any Man meet with a prudent Woman, that Man what offers to meddle with her, without her Consent, shall suffer present Death.
XIV. No Snap’n of Guns in the Pantry.
