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receive Our Pay from the respective Days on which they shall
be enlisted, pursuant to such Certificates as you shall judge
sufficient for that purpose, and that the Commission Officers
shall enter into Pay from the Day their Commissions bear
Date, & they shall take Post and Rank in the respective Bat-
talions, into which they shall be formed, according to the Date
of the Certificates by which it shall appear when each Captain
respectively had compleated his Levies
6. And as a farther Encouragement to such Officers and
Soldiers, as shall engage in the present Expedition, you may
assure them in Our Royal Name, that the Soldiers shall not
only be cloathed and Armed, according to the Samples that
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will be sent herewith, & furnished with Tents, and entertained
in Our Pay, but that, after their Arrival at the general Place
of Rendezvous, they shall be provided for in every other Re-
spect as Our British Troops; That they shall likewise have
their just Share and Proportion of all Plunder, or Booty gained
or taken from the Enemy, according to their Services, and if,
by the Blessing of God upon Our Arms, any of the Enemy's
Lands or Settlements shall fall into Our Hands, Our American
Troops shall have a Share thereof, as well as the Rest of Our
Forces, in Preference to all other Persons that shall not have
engaged in the present Expedition.
7. And We do further declare, that so soon as the present
Expedition shall be determined, whatever the Success thereof
may be, all the Troops raised in Our American Colonies for
this Purpose, as well Officers, as Soldiers shall have free Leave
to return to their respective Provinces, and shall be transported
thither at Our Expence, except Those only, that shall chuse,
for their own Advantage to settle or remain in such Places or
Garrisons, as may fall into Our hands, where they shall receive
all due Encouragement, and the Soldiers, whether they remain
there, or return home, after the said Expedition, shall retain
their Arms & Cloathing
8. But We trust and expect that Our Assembly of Mary-
land, will provide Victuals, Transports, and all Other Neces-
sarys for the Troops to be raised in Our said Province, except
Cloaths, Tents, Arms, Ammunition and Pay, till their Arrival
at the General Rendezvous in the West Indies, from which
Time the said Transports shall enter into Our Pay; And you
are hereby directed, without Loss of time, to recommend to
the said Assembly, in Our Name, to make such Provision,
that the Expedition may not be retarded for Want thereof
9. We recommend to you also to engage such Persons
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