282 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23-May 22, 1756.

U.H.J.
Liber No. 35
May 14

to mention it would also Serve as a Place of Arms and Magazine
for the Forces that may be engaged in such Service it being almost
as far up as Potowmack is Navigable for small Craft and Fort
Cumberland being very improper for such purposes on Account of
its Situation which will allways prevent its being a place of Strength
or even made Tenable and moreover by our building such Forts and
keeping up such a Number of men for them the Inhabitants who
live and have fine Settlements beyond the North Mountain would
be encouraged to remain on their respective Plantations instead of
deserting them as they must otherwise do and be reduced from
affluent or easy Circumstances to a State of dependance or want.

2^dly It would be more Advisable to form the 200 Men proposed to
be raised and Supported for the defence of the Fort on the North
Mountain and to Range on the said Mountain into three Companies
or else let them all be under the Command of one Captain or Com-
mandant and be divided into three Relieves each Relief to Consist of
a Lieutenant Ensign three Sergeants three Corporals and 58 Men
3^dly The Officers that may be appointed Commissioned to raise the
300 or any Number of men for carrying on an Expedition to the
westward (if not the Officers who are to raise the Two hundred men
for the Fort on the North Mountain should be permitted to offer
and give a larger Bounty to Voluntiers than three pieces of Eight in
some of the Neighbouring Colonies the Officers are allowed to give
£5 for every Recruit
4 It should be left to the Commander in Chief of the intended Ex-
pedition to form the Companies that will be raised in this Province
and put under his Command as he shall think proper which he can-
not do if the Bill directs what Number of Officers and men each
Company shall Consist of: The Regulation of such Troops or Com-
panies Pay should also be left to him that by regulating the Pay of
all the Provincial Troops that shall be under his Command and mak-
ing it similar he might prevent the uneasieness dissatisfaction and

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Mischiefs that would be occasioned by a different Regulation and
allowance.
5 The Neighbouring Colonies Pennsylvania not excepted Subject
the Troops that are Supported by them respectively for their defence
to Tryals by Courts Martial is it Proper that the Soldiers which are
to be raised for Building and Garrisoning the Fort proposed to be
built within this Province should alone be exempted from such
Tryals and that to have a Soldier Punished for Mutiny and desertion
his Officer must bring him before a Court of Judicature and Order
all that part of the Garrison that shall be able to give Evidence
against him to March down to a County Court in Order to attend
and give Evidence on the Tryals