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bodied, best disciplined, and most expert of those Officers and Men,
and best qualified for the Services intended by this Act, and hereafter
directed.
XXVI. And in Case there shall not be among the said Men, a
sufficient Number of such Men as aforesaid, who, by the Terms of
their Enlistment, are obliged to serve for such Time as aforesaid,
then it shall and may be lawful for his Excellency Horatio Sharpe,
Esq; or the Governor or Commander in Chief of this Province, for
the Time being, to impower Persons to Enlist so many such Men,
able-bodied and fit for the Service, as shall be wanting to compleat
the aforesaid Number of Three Hundred Men, Officers included;
which Men, so to be Enlisted, shall be Enlisted to serve for an in-
definite Time, and not otherwise.
XXVII. And be it further Enacted, That the said Three Hundred
Men shall immediately, upon passing this Act, be stationed at Fort
Frederick in this Province, as Rangers; and from thence shall Range
for the Defence, Protection, and Quiet of the Frontier Inhabitants,
in Manner following; That is to say, One Third Part of the said
Three Hundred Men, which shall be effective, shall go out monthly,
during their Continuance in the Pay of this Province as aforesaid
(the First Party to go out as soon as possible); and shall be divided
into Three Parties, One of which, under the Command of a Captain
or Lieutenant, shall be employed constantly in Ranging the Woods
about the Temporary Line, between Conococheague and the North-
Mountain, as near the Settlements of the Inhabitants, as may be most
conducive to their Defence and Protection, lying in Ambush when
necessary, at such Place or Places, about the said Line, or on the
said Mountain, as it is most probably the Enemy will pass or repass ;
One other of the said Three Parties, under the Command of a
Lieutenant, shall be employed as aforesaid, near the Mouth of Cono-
cocheague, and between that and Baker's Fort, and the North-Moun-
tain; and the other of the said Parties shall be employed as aforesaid,
near the Place formerly known by the Name of Mr. Dulany's
Quarter, and from thence along the Temporary Line by Crosse's
Fort to Baker's Fort, and along the same Line to Anti-Eatam from
the said Quarter. And in Case any of the Men or Officers shall,
during the Time they shall be so ordered out, die, be killed, or be
by any Means rendered non-effective, or should desert, then the
Officer commanding the Party, shall immediately make Application
to the Commanding Officer at the Fort, who shall forthwith send
other Officers or Men, to supply the Place of such Officers or Men,
dead, killed, non-effective, or deserted; which said Parties shall be
relieved at the End of One Month from the going out of the First
Party; and so Parties shall go out monthly, during the Continuance
ot the said Three Hundred Men in the Pay of this Province as
aforesaid; and the Parties who are to relieve, shall be at their several
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