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Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1675-1676. 85
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Court Martiall shall thinke fitt, And if any Corporall or other
Officer comanding a Guard shall willingly or knowingly Suffer
either Soldiers or Officers to goe forth to a duel or private
fight he shall be punished for it by the sentence of a Court
Martiall, fforasmuch as all Officers of what Condition soever
shall have power to part and quell all Quarrells frayes or
sudden disorders between Soldiers and Officers though of an
other Company Troop or Regiment and to committ the disor-
dered persons to prison untill their proper Officers be
acquainted therewith and whoever shall resist such an Officer
(though of another Company Troop or Regiment, or draw his
Sword upon him, shall be severely punished as a Generall
Court Martiall shall appoint, But if two or more goeing into
the feild to fight a duel, shall draw their swords or other
weapons and fight though neither of them fall upon the Spott,
nor dye afterwards of any wound there received yet if they
be Officers they shall loose their places and if comon Soldiers
they shall be punished with rideing the wooden horse or
otherwise as a Court Martiall shall direct, and lastly in all
cases of Duels the seconds shall be taken as principalls and
punished accordingly.
None shall appeare at the appointed place of Rande-
vouze there to be mustered but such as armed as follow-
eth viz. each horseman a good Sufficient able Sword one well
fixt gunn or Carabine and One good well fixt pistoll at the
least or two if any wayes to be procured, The foot to have
each Souldier a Sword and musquet or other Gunn to be well
fixt and fitted up
All passes and Licences for being absent shall be
290 brought to the muster Master who is required to Enter
the same in a booke fairly written to prevent Collusion, and
whoever is absent longer then the time limitted in his passe
for his absence shall be respited and not allowed the muster
without Order from his Lopp his Generall or Leivtenant Generall
for the time being. But if the Comissaries Generall shall upon
the muster find to many absent from any Company or Troop at
a time they are to complaine thereof to his Lopp his Generall or
Lievtenant Generall aforesaid.
If any Souldier shall be Sicke wounded or maimed in
3oo his Lopps and the Country's Service he shall be sent Out
of the Camp with the first convenient Oppurtunity to some fitt
and convenient place for his recovery where he shall be pro-
vided for by the Officer or other person or persons appointed
to take care of sicke and wounded Souldiers, his wages or
pay according to Act of Assembly for that case made & pro-
vided to goe on and be duly paid him, till it shall appeare he be
well recovered and that troop or Company be disbanded, But if
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