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and shall require Certificates of the Officer commanding such Party
or Division, in which Certificates shall be expressed or certified the
particular Service or Duty, on which such Party or Division, and
every Man thereof, is absent, the Occasion of such his Absence, and
how long he has been absent; and if any Soldier or Soldiers shall
have died, deserted, or have been discharged from, or enlisted into,
such Company, since the last Muster thereof, then opposite to their
Names respectively shall be notified, and it shall be specified in such
Certificate when such Soldier or Soldiers died, deserted, or were
discharged or enlisted: And until the Commanding Officer of any
Party or Division, shall have given such particular Certificates, as
are abovementioned, the said Captain shall not enter in such Muster-
Roil the Names of any Officers or Men, except such as shall actually
appear before him.
XVIII. And be it further Enacted, That the said Captains shall
always close the Muster-Roll of each Company, upon the Place
where, and the Day when, the Muster thereof shall be taken; and the
Two eldest Officers of such Company, besides the Captain (who are
hereby required to be present, unless the Duty of their Station obliges
them to the contrary) if so many shall be present, shall, with the
said Captain, subscribe the said Muster-Roil.
XIX. And be it further Enacted, That if any Officer, having
received a Soldier's Pay, shall detain or with-hold the same, or any
Part thereof, by the Space of a Fortnight, after such Pay shall
be by him received, unless such Soldier shall be on Furlough, and
then, if such Officer shall detain it a Week after the Expiration of
the Furlough, and Return of the Soldier to his Duty, such Officer, so
offending, shall, upon Proof thereof before a General Court-Martial,
forfeit Fifty Pounds Current Money, and be Cashiered; and if the
Informer be a Soldier, and demand a Discharge, he shall be there-
upon discharged from any further Service.
XX. And be it Enacted, That every Officer stationed or posted at,
or ranging about, any of the Places hereaftermentioned who shall,
after the Twenty-fifth Day of December, Seventeen Hundred and
Fifty-seven, wittingly or willingly allow, sign, make or give, or
cause or procure to be signed, allowed, made or given, any false or
untrue Muster-Roil, Certificate, or Journal or Duplicate of such
Muster-Roll, Certificate, or Journal; upon Proof thereof upon
Oath, made by Two Witnesses before the Provincial Court, shall,
for such Offence, be disabled from having or holding any Civil or
Military Office or Employment in this Province, and shall likewise
forfeit and pay, if a Captain or Lieutenant, One Hundred Pounds
Current Money; if under the Degree of a Lieutenant, Fifty Pounds
Current Money; to be recovered by Action of Debt, or on the Case,
in the said Court, with full Costs, and applied as hereafter directed.
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