278 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3, 1715.

C. P.

or Overseer to pay the like Sume of one hundred pounds of
Tob^o for Every Servt soe letted or hindred as afd for the Use
of the troop or foot Company to which he belongs to purchase
Drums Colours and other Necessarys for the Troop or Com-
pany as the field Officers of the said Militia in that County or
any Two of them shall Direct.

Provided that this Clause be not Construed to Counte-
nance any Officer to press armes or Amunition for Any ffur-
ther Expedition then Training but that upon all such occasions
they shall be supplyed out of the County Magazine or Store
all which fforfeitures shall be heard Adjudged and Determined
by the Collonell Lieutent Coll. Major or Any two of them
and an Account thereof kept in writing by the Clerk of such
Troop or Compa which said Coll Lieutent Coll or Major of
such County or any two of them as afd is hereby Authorized
and Impowered to Award Execution against the body Goods
& Chattells of such persons soe neglecting refuseing or fail-
ing as afd and that upon Occasion of all such Executions the
respective Clerks and Shers of Each respective County within
this province shall Issue out and serve Execution without ffee
or reward.

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And for Settleing the horse forces that a Captaine of horses
in Each respective County for making up of his troop shall
Enlist his number of Men out of the Inhabitants of the said
County According to such Instructions as he shall from time
to time receive from the Governour of this Province or the
Coll of the County for the time being
Provided allways that such Troopers shall ride their Own
horses and that no person shall be a trooper without he be the
owner of a good Serviceable horse which shall pass Muster
And that such Troopers in Consideration of their great pay
here after to be allowed be bound and obliged [to find] them-
selves with good able and sufficient ffurniture for their horses
and likewise to find themselves with Swords Carabines Pistolls
holsters and Amunition and if any Trooper shall neglect or
refuse upon Notice given them as afd to the foot Souldiers
[to] Appear and muster att the time and Place Appointed
as afd by Each respective Captaine of horse Accoutred as afd
required as afd shall fforfeit and pay one hundred pounds of
Tob^o to be Levyed as afd to the use of the troop for purchas-
ing of Trumpetts and Colours and other neccessarys as the
Comander shall think fitt and that all such Troopers for and
in Consideration afd att all such Times as they shall be out
ranging shall find their own provisions but when in Actuall

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service to be found provisions att the Charge of this province
to be Paid by the Publick And if itt shall happen that any