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at all Events and not to keep them in the Service upon any Pretence
whatsoever after the 25^th day of Decem.^r next as the Bill proposes
we apprehend might be of the most dangerous Consequence to that
Safety and Security of the Province that this Bill intends to preserve
and might render every thing done in Consequence of the powers and
authorities given in it absolutely ineffectual to the End proposed.
That the pay of the Officers we think should be regulated as near as
may be to that of the Neighbouring Colonies to prevent disputes and
uneasinesses among them and therefore the Captains Pay should be
12/6 p day the Lieutenants 6/ Ensigns 4/8 Sergeants I/6 Corporals
and Drummers I/ each and each Private Soldier 8^d p day and that
every Company should consist of a Captain Lieutenant Ensign 3
Sergeants 3 Corporals 2 Drummers and 50 Private men only it having
been found by Experience as we are informed that in so Woody a
Country such a Number of men cannot be duly Commanded and
kept to their duty by a Less Number of Officers That in the Fort we
think there should be a Fort Adjutant Gunner and Gunsmith the
first to be allowed Lieutenants Pay and the Gunner and Gunsmith
2/6 p Day each That we think a Surgeon who shall be Employed
in the Service ought to be a man of Skill and abilities in his Business
and therefore as his Medicine Chest Instruments and Equipage will
as we are Informed cost him forty pounds Sterling it is not Reason-
able to give him less than that sum besides Ten Shil^s p day and a
Mate to attend and assist him Whereas by this Bill he is only allowed
6/ p day and is to find his own Medecines and Instruments That a
Clause should be Inserted to Punish Mutiny and desertion in the
Soldiers and inflicting a Severe Penalty on such Persons as shall
Entertain Deserters. That the Clause in the Bill directing the
Election of the Colectors of Excise by the Rector Vestry and Church
Wardens in each County we Conceive is an infringement upon the
Right of the Government to appoint Officers and therefore we cannot
agree to it That the Tax upon wine and Spirits now in Cellars
Vaults &c:^a for Private Consumption we apprehend is an unpre-
cedented unheard of Tax and of Dangerous Tendency under a British
Constitution and therefore will not consent to it. We think that the
Exciseman as his Trust is great and may be under the Temptation
of Committing many abuses of the Powers given him by the Bill
should give a Security in the sum of Four hundred pounds at least
That as there is a perpetual Law against bringing into this Province
from Pennsylvania or the Teritories thereto belonging or from any
other Province or Colonie in this Continent any horses Mares Colts
or Fillys under the Penalty of Forfeiting the same we think it will be
Necessary to add a Clause to that part of the Bill laying a Duty on
horses Brought into this Province for Sale Repealing that part of
that perpetual Law Relating to the bringing in horses for Sale.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April 15