Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22, 1699. 563

for every Such Servant so letted or hindered as aforesaid
for the use of the foot Company to Purchase Drums and
Colours and other Necessarys for the Company as the Com-
ander thereof shall direct Provided that this Clause be not to
Countenance any officer to press Arms or Ammunition for any
further Expedition or Service than Training but that upon all
such Occasions they be Supplyed out of the County Magazine

or Store all which forfeitures shall be adjudged of heard and

Determined by such Col Major or Captaine of any foot Company
as aforesaid & Account thereof kept in writeing by the Clerk of
such Company which said Colonel Major or Captain of such
Company as aforesaid is hereby Authorized and Impowered to
award Execution against the Goods and Chattells of such
persons as aforesaid so refuseing neglecting or failing as afore-
said and that upon Occasion of all such Executions the respec-
tive Clerk and Sherriffe of each respective County within this

Lib. L. L.

Province shall issue out and serve Execution without any ffee
or reward. And for Setling the horse forces That a Captain
of horse in each respective County for makeing up of his
Troop Elect and Enlist his Number of men out of the Inhabi-
tants of the said County according to such Instructions as he
shall from time to time receive from the Governor of this
Province for the time being. Provided allways that Such
Troopers shall ride their Own horses and that no pson shall
be a Trooper without he be Owner of a good Serviceable
horse which shall Pass Muster and that Such Troopers in
Consideration of their Great pay hereafter to be Allowed be
bound and obliged to find themselves with good able & Suffi-
cient furniture for their horses and likewise to find th^mselves
with Swords Carabines, Pistolls holsters & Amunition and if
any Troopers shall neglect or refuse upon notice given them
as aforesaid (to the foot) to appear att Musters att the time
and Place appointed as aforesaid by each respective Captaine
of horse Accoutred and Equipped as afores^d shall forfeitt and
Pay the Sume of one hundred pounds of Tobbacco to be
leavied as aforesaid to the use of the Troop for the Purchase-
ing of Trumpetts and Coulers and other necessarys as the
Comander shall think fitt and that all Such Troopers for and
in Consideration aforesaid att all such times as they are out a
Ranging shall find their Own Provisions but when in Actuall
Service to be found provisions att the Charge of this Province
to be paid by the Publick and if it shall happen that any
Troopers horse should be killed in the Service then the s^d
Trooper to be paid for the said horse by the publick and not
otherwise. That all persons in holy orders Delegates Magis-
trates and Constables shall in their proper persons be Exempted
from being Compelled to Muster and Traine either in horse

p. 344