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the Commissioners or Trustees aforesaid, to be by them applied to
the replacing and sinking the several Sums of Money granted by
this Act.
XCII. And whereas the frequent Use of Carriages may be neces-
sary; Be it Enacted, That from and after the End of this Session
of Assembly until the Thirtieth Day of September, Seventeen Hun-
dred and Fifty-eight, when and as often as the Service may require
the carrying of Gunpowder, Shot, Lead, Arms, Cloathing, or any
Military Stores or Accoutrements whatsoever, or Provisions of any
Kind, for Troops in his Majesty's Service in general, or of his
Province in particular, there shall be paid the following Rates of
Carriage to the Owner or Owners of all such Carriages as shall be
employed in such Services, viz. For the Hire of every Cart, with
Four Horses, carrying a Load not exceeding Twelve Hundred
Pounds Weight, the Sum of Ten Shillings Current Money per Day,
and for the Hire of every Waggon, with Four Horses, carrying a
Load not exceeding Fifteen Hundred Pounds Weight, the Sum of
Twelve Shillings and Six Pence Current Money per Day. Provided
always, and it is the true Intent and Meaning of this Act, that where
any Cart or Waggon shall be pressed at any Distance from the Place
where they are to be laden, that then the Owner or Owners thereof,
shall be paid for the Hire of their said Carts or Waggons after the
Rate of Five Pence per Mile for every Mile of such Distance, and
the like Sum per Mile for every Mile they shall be obliged to travel
in Return to their respective Places of Abode, after they have deliv-
ered their Loads.
XCIII. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That no Officer or Commander of any Company, or Person, employ-
ing any Cart or Waggon in Virtue of this Act, shall constrain or
compel the Owner or Driver of such Cart or Waggon to travel more
than Fifteen Miles in any one Day, on Pain of forfeiting the Sum
of Five Pounds Current Money, to be recovered before One Pro-
vincial Justice, or Two Justices of the Peace, where the Offence shall
be committed, and applied as the Fines and Forfeitures herein before
are directed to be applied. Provided nevertheless, That if the Exi-
gency of the Service should make it necessary for any Carriage,
employed within this Province in his Majesty's Service, to travel more
than Fifteen Miles in one Day, then and in such Case the Owner or
Driver of such Carriage shall proceed farther, but for every Mile
that he shall travel that Day with the Carriage, above the Fifteen
Miles, he may demand, and shall receive the Sum of One Shilling
and Four Pence per Mile if a Waggon, and One Shilling per Mile
if a Cart, over and above the Sum of Twelve Shillings and Six
Pence, or the Sum of Ten Shilings, before allowed for a Day's Hire.
XCIV. And whereas it may be necessary to make Provision for
Intelligence and other Contingencies, which it is impossible particu-
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