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There being no Magistrate beyond Conegocheague, the Captain
will not be able to return any Muster Rolls 'till the End of the
Campaign, and should the Troops be unhappily defeated, and some

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Liber No. 35
April 18

of the Captains killed or taken Prisoners they then would find some
Difficulty in getting their Pay, even after the Expedition shall be
over, and should the Expedition be successful, and any of the Cap-
tains wounded or on Account of Sickness obliged to remain in the
Hospital any considerable Time after the Campaign, the Troops
would at least be kept out of their Pay for still a longer Time after
they would be disbanded and dispersed. Had the Expedition taken
Place in 1756 our Forces were to have been formed and paid as
the Commander upon the Expedition should have thought fit; to
this Part of the Bill we therefore object for the Reasons we have
given it not being intended that either of the Agents should attend
the Troops upon the Expedition, it seems necessary to appoint a
Paymaster.

Any Officer that shall have received Mony to pay a Soldier, and
shall detain it a Fortnight after he shall have received it unless the
Soldier be on Furlough is to forfeit the Sum of £50 : this Direction
we apprehend is too extensive as Emergencies may happen to put it
out of the Power of the Officer to comply with it. A Soldier may be
at a Distance from the Officer upon a Detachment during the Fort-
night and longer : this Clause we therefore object to.

The Clause directing Informations to be filed in the Provincial
Court ag .^t an Officer for any Breach whatsoever of the Bill may
greatly harrass him and obstruct the Service, and therefore we think
it ought to be — omitted.

The Troops as the Bill now stands, are to be maintained no longer
than the 30. ^th of next September; this is too narrow and ought to
extend to the End of the Campaign if the General should think fit,
especially as a Surplus of the Money proposed to be raised will
remain unappropriated.

The Persons to be employed in the recruiting Service should have
some Reward, the recruiting Service is a very troublesome and
disagreeable one and it seems reasonable and necessary to give them
more than their Pain for their Trouble, if you think it practicable to
raise the Men by the common Method of recruiting.

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The Troops intended to be raised are to be formed into Companies
but it may be more conducive to the Service to form them into a
Regiment we therefore think that the Manner of forming them
should be left to the Commander in Chief, and a provincial Clause
for that Purpose ought to be inserted.

We think that Part of the Bill very improper which directs that
two hundred of the best Men shall be left at Fort Frederick, if any
direction were necessary in this Particular it appears to us that the

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