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'till they can be compleated, as many of the Men that may be in the
Pay of this Province, shall be reserved, or left for the Defence of
the Fort, and to range near the Frontier Settlements for the Pro-
tection of the Inhabitants, as his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq.^r
or the Governor or Commander in Chief of this Province for the
Time being shall think necessary, & order

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Page 2 : L : 6: After the Word Captains insert the following,
Subalterns, or other Persons that shall be employed to raise Men
for the Service aforesaid.

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Words Receipts, in the twenty fifth Line, and insert the following,
And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that the
Officers, or Persons who may be employed to raise Men for the
Purpose aforesaid, shall return to the Agents aforesaid the Receipts
of such Men as they shall enlist for the Bounty Money paid to
them respectively, and the Agents are not to allow or pass any
recruiting Accounts, for the Justness of which such Receipts, are
not returned as Vouchers, and to prevent the Embezzlement of any
Money that is, or shall be allowed for the Pay of the Troops afore-
said, Be it Enacted that the several Companies, shall be mustred
Monthly while they remain in the Province, and once in every two
Months in Case the Officer appointed by the Earl of Loudoun to

U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
May 2

command the Forces that shall be raised or employed in these Parts
for his Majesty's Service, and the Defence of these Colonies should
march any of them out of the Province, and 'till such Muster Rolls,
are returned to and received by the Governor, or Commander in
Chief of this Province for the Time being and Duplicates thereof
by the Agents appointed by this Act, the said Agents are not to
advance, or remit any Sum, or Sums of Money for the Pay of the
said Companies or Company whose Muster Roll may be wanting and
for the more effectual preventing of Fraud, and deceit in the muster-
ing of Soldiers, in the Pay of this Province, Be it Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid that the Muster Rolls shall be made out agree-
able to the Form used by Order of his Majesty in the British Forces,
and as soon as possible after any Muster shall be made had, or taken
by the Commissary he shall make Oath before one of his Lordship's
Justices of the Peace in manner and Form following, viz.^t I, A B.
do sweare that I saw at the time of making the within Muster such
Men as are borne, on the Muster Roll, and for which no signed
Certificates are indorsed on the Back of the Roll, certifying their
being absent from the Muster by reason of their being employed on
Detachment, or other Duty, or by being sick, in Prison, on Furlough,
dead, deserted, or discharged and the Justice is hereby directed, and
required to sign a Probate on the Back of each Muster Roll of the

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