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the President of such General Court-Martial shall not be under the
Degree of a Captain; and that no Sentence of Death shall be given
against any Offender by any such General Court-Martial, unless Five
of the said Seven, or Two Thirds of a greater Number of Officers
present, shall concur therein; nor shall any Sentence of Death, given
by such Court-Martial, be carried into Execution, until the Minutes
of the Proceedings of such Court-Martial be laid before the Governor
or Commander in Chief of this Province, for the Time being, and
his Warrant thereupon obtained for the Execution of such Sentence.
XXXIV. And be it further Enacted, That if any Person shall,
from and after the End of this Session of Assembly, before the
Thirtieth Day of September, Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-eight,
harbour or conceal, or assist, any Deserter from the Service afore-
said, knowing him to be such, or shall knowingly buy or exchange, or
otherwise receive, any Cloaths, Arms, or Military Accoutrements,
from any Soldier in, or Deserter from, his Majesty's Service, or the
Service of any of his Colonies in America, the Person so offending
shall forfeit, for such Offence, the Sum of Ten Pounds Current
Money.
XXXV. And be it further Enacted, That every Person, who,
after his Discharge from the said Service, shall produce to the County
Court where he shall reside, a Certificate from his Commanding
Officer of his good Behaviour therein, and that at the Time of his
Enlistment he was able-bodied and fit for the Service (which Cer-
tificate the Clerk of the same Court shall record without Fee or
Reward) shall be exempted from the Payment of all Manner of
Taxes or Levies whatever; as also from the labouring on High-
Ways, and from Payment of Ferriages, for the Space of Three
Years next after the producing such Discharge or Certificate.
XXXVI. And for the Encouragement of such able-bodied Men
as shall adventure their Lives in the Defence, Security or Protection
of this Province, under this Act, and shall happen to be maimed, or
rendered incapable to get a Livelihood for themselves or Families ;
Be it Enacted, That every able-bodied Person who shall adventure
as aforesaid, shall happen to be maimed, or receive Hurt, in such
Service, so as to be incapable of getting a Livelihood as aforesaid,
shall, according to his Disability, receive a yearly Pension, to be
raised out of the Public Levy of this Province, during the Time of
such Disability; the Party petitioning for such Pension or Allow-
ance producing a Certificate, to the County Court where he shall
reside, from his Commanding Officer, of his being an able-bodied
Person at the Time of his Enlistment, and fit for the Service, how
long he may have been in such Service, of his good Behaviour
therein, and for what Cause discharged (which Certificate the Clerk
of the same Court shall record ex Officio) and likewise producing
from the said Court a Certificate to the General Assembly, that he
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