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Demand is Determined shall & may Direct what ffee not
Exceeding Two shillings and Six pence or thirty pounds of
Tob^o Each Constable shall have which ffee or ffees are to be
Levyed by way of Execution on the party Complaining and
to be Allowed the party recovering in his Costs.

An Act for the ordering and regulating the Militia of this
Province for the better Defence and Security thereof.

Be itt Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Majestys Governour
Councill and Assembly of this Province and the Authority of the
same that from and after the end of this present Sessions of As-
sembly the Militia of this Province shall be mustered Trained
and Exercized According to these directions and Instructions
following (Viz) That Every Collonell Lieutenant Coll Major
or Captaine of horse or foot Allready Commissioned or here-

C. P.

after to be Commissionated by his Excellency the Governour
of this province for the time being shall have power to Enlist
such and soe many Inhabiting within this Province not here-
after Excepted in their sev^ll and respective Divisions between
sixteen and Sixty years of Age as they shall think fitt by as
Equall proportions of the said Inhabitants as possible they
Can to be of Militia or Trainbands of this province which said
persons soe Enlisted they shall Muster Exercize and Train in
and att such Places and all such Certaine times as to them
shall seeme Meet and as the Service Safety or Defence of
this province shall require or as his Excellency the Governr of
this Province or Commander in Chiefe for the time being
shall see Cause to Order & that Every such Collonell Lieutent
Coll Major or Captaine shall give notice or Sumons upon
Every training or Mustering to Every person soe Enlisted as
afd within his respective Division or Limitt att the head of his
Company or att the house of the party by an officer of his
Company or warrt under his hand to appeare att such time
and place as he shall appoint for such Training or Mustering
and that if any man after such Notice given and Sumons as
afd shall neglect to appear att the time and place Appointed
as afd or that refuse when he hath soe appeared to be Enlisted
into the Militia and Trainbands afd or that being soe Enlisted
shall not from time to time as he shall be sumoned or warned

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as afd Appear and bring with him one Good Serviceable Gunn
fixt with Six Charges of Gunpowder shall for Every such
Offence (if a ffreeman) forfeit and pay the Sume of one hun-
dred pounds of Tob^o and if a Servant Letten or hindered by
his Master Mistress or Overseer, then such Master Mistress

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