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Medicines to be found him by the Agents herein after appointed,
Six Shillings per Day : And to One Gun-Smith, Tools and Materials
(Coals excepted) to be found him by the Agents herein after ap-
pointed, Three Shillings per Day; Deduction being to be made for
any Deficiency or Deficiences in the said Number of Officers or Men,
by Death or otherwise; which Forces the said Agents are hereby
directed duly to pay monthly, as hereafter directed, according to the
Number that shall be in actual Service, as hereafter directed, and
not otherwise.
XV. And to the Intent that no Money may be paid out by the said
Agents, for the Wages, Subsistence, or Support, of any Officer or
Soldier, to be supported in the Pay of this Province, by Virtue of this
Act, but such as bona fide are not only enlisted, but actually in Person
do pertorm their Duty; Be it Unacted, That no Money shall be
drawn out, advanced, remitted, or paid, for or towards the Pay,
Subsistence, or Support, of the respective Companies, until Muster-
Rolls, Certificates, and Journals of such Company, shall be returned
to the Governor or Commander in Chief of this Province, for the
Time being, and to the said Agents, in Manner and Form, and by
the Time, herein after directed.
XVI. And be it Enacted, That Musters of the said Three Hundred
Men shall be taken at Fort Frederick monthly; and Muster-Rolls
shall be made out by the Captain of each respective Company, agree-
able to the Form now used by Order of his Majesty, in making out
Muster-Rolls of the British Forces; and as soon as possible after any
Muster shall be made, had, or taken, by the said Captain, he shall
make Oath before one of his Lordship's Justices of the Peace, in
Manner and Form following, viz. I A. B. do swear, that I saw
mustered, at the Time of making the within Muster, such Men as
are borne on the within Muster-Roll, and for which no signed Cer-
tificate or Certificates are Indorsed thereon, certifying their being
absent from such Muster, by Reason of being employed on Detach-
ment, or other Duty, or being sick, in Prison, on Furlough, dead,
deserted, or discharged.
XVII. And the said Justice, upon the said Captain's making such
Oath to such Muster-Roil, is hereby directed immediately to make a
Certificate thereof on the Back of such Muster-Roll; and for every
Neglect in any Captain, to make and return such Muster-Rolls as
aforesaid, he shall forfeit the Sum of One Hundred Pounds Current
Money, to be recovered as hereafter directed, in Case of Signing a
false Muster-Roll. And when it shall be out of the Power of the said
Captain, or Officer commanding any Company, to make his whole
Company appear, on Account of such Company's being divided into
different Parties or Divisions, Ranging in different Parts, then and
in such Case, such Captain shall, on his Muster-Roll, distinguish the
Names of such as are absent at the Time of taking the said Muster,
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