Acts. 273

Office and Place of Pressmaker shall forfeit and pay unto her
Majesty for Support of Government for every time he or they
so nominated and appointed shall refuse to serve as aforesaid
the sume of five hundred pounds of Tobacco.
And for the more or better encouragement of such Souldiers
as shall in the time of Warr adventure in the Service of the
Country and Defence thereof against Indians or others.

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the booty Prize
Passage or Plunder or any Indian or other Seized or taken
Prisoner shall by the Comander be equally divided and dis-
tributed amongst the Slaves by a Division or distribution to be
made by the Poll. And for the incouragem^t of such Souldiers
as shall Adventure their Lives in the Service and Defence of
this Province and for the Provision of Some reasonable Pen-
sions to be for the future Settled on such Souldiers as shall
happen to be maim'd or rendred incapable to gett a livelyhood
for themselves or ffamily
Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid that every Person
th^e shall adventure as a souldier in any Warr or Defence of
this Province and shall therein happen to be maimed or receive
hurt so as to be rendred incapable of getting a livelyhood as
aforesaid shall according to his disability receive yearly pension
to be raised out of the Publiq Levy of this Province for the
time being of such Disability and every Person Slaine in the
Service of this Province leaving behind him a wife and
Children shall also be allowed a Competent Pension to the
wife during her Widowhood and the Children till they be of
years able to gett their living or be put out Apprentices And
that this Pension be yearly paid and allowed out of the fifty
thousand pounds of Tobacco p annum to be raised by the
Governour of this Province for the time being or the Councill
as in this Act is hereafter Provided in the Intervalls of Assem-
blys the party Petitioning for such pension and allowance
procuring a Certificate from the County Court where he she
or they live that he she or they are Objects of Charity and
deserve to have such Pension and allowance.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That
if upon any foreign Invasion any person or persons whatso-
ever (except before excepted) that shall be press'd or be an
enlisted Souldier within this Province shall upon the Comand
of his Officer being a Captain at the least obstinately refuse
to appear and serve in Arms for the Necessary Defence of
this Province such Person or Persons so obstinately refusing
to appear and serve in Arms as aforesaid shall upon Certificate

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thereof under Such Officers hands as aforesaid to the next
Justice of the Peace of the County where such party liveth be
proceeded against in Manner following (that is to say) the

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