Assembly Proceedings, October—November 1678. 55

said the Levying thereof shall be respited for eighteene
moneths to be Computed from the end of this sessions of
assembly And any person or persons that shall be soe fined as
aforesaid that within the said terme of Eighteene moneths shall
appeare in the feild with Armes and Amunicon as aforesaid
being his own propper goods all those fines that haue been
putt uppon him & soe Respited as aforesaid shall never here-
after be Leavyed but Expunged out of the Roll and list of
fines and any person or persons that shall be soe fined as afore-
said that within the said Terme of Eighteene moneths shall not
be provided with Armes & Amunition of his owne propper
goods as aforesaid all those fines that haue been putt uppon
him & soe respited as aforesaid shall be forthwith Levyed to
the vses aforesaid
3^dly ffor the Settlement of the Horse forces that each
Captain of Horse in each respective County shall for the make-
ing upp his Troope Elect and inlist his number of men out of
the Inhabitants of the said County according to such instruccons
as he shall from time to tyme Receive from the Lord Proprie-
tary his heires and Successors or his or their Leivtenant for the
tyme being Provided allwayes that such Troopers shall ride
their owne horses and that noe person shall be a Trooper with-
out he be owner of a good serviceable horse which shall passe
muster And That such Troopers in Consideracon of their great
pay hereafter to be allowed be bound and obliged to find
themselues with good able and Sufficient ffurniture for their
Horses and likewise to find themselues with sword Carbine
Pistolls Holsters & Amunition And if any Trooper shall

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neglect or Refuse uppon notice given to them in manner as
aforesaid to the foote to appear att Musters att the tyme and
place appointed by each Respective Captain of horse accoutred
and Equiped as aforesaid shall forfeit and pay the summe of
one hundred pounds of Tobacco to the Lord Proprietary to be
Levyed in manner as aforesaid for the vse of the Troop for
Trumpett & Colours & other necessaryes as the Comander
shall thinke fitt And that such Troopers for and in Consid-
eracon aforesaid att all such tymes as they are out a ranging
shall find their owne Provisions Butt when Ioyned with the
foote in actuall service then to be found Provisions att the
Charge of this Province to be paid by the Publick And if itt
shall happen That any Troopers horse be killed in the service
then the said Trooper to be paid for the said horse by the
Publick and not otherwise—
4^thly That all Preists Delegates Magistrates & Constables shall
in their propper persons be Exempted from being Compelled to
Trayning or any Millitary service either in Horse or foote in
the field dureing such Terme as they officiate or bear such

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