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XX. And be it further Enacted, That the Bills of Credit, by this
Act before directed to be Emitted, made Current, and Paid out, as
aforesaid, shall be applied to the Uses and Purposes herein after
mentioned, and to no other Use or Purpose whatsoever; That is to
say, The Sum of Seven Thousand One Hundred and Eighty-six
Pounds Current Money, or so much thereof as may be necessary
to the reimbursing the Money advanced in the Year One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Fifty-eight, by General Forbes, for the Payment
of Part of the Arrears due for the Pay, Victualling and Cloathing
of the Five Hundred Men, taken into the Pay of this Province,
by Virtue of an Act, entituled, An Act for his Majesty's Service, and
the more immediate Defence and Protection of the Frontier In-
habitants of this Province, from the Time the Money appropriated
by the said Act, was expended, until the Time when they were by
him taken into his Majesty's Service, and for the Repayment of the
Money by him advanced for the Pay and Cloathing of the said Men,
from the Time when they were so taken into his Majesty's Service,
until the End of the Campaign in the Year One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Fifty-eight; and the Sum of Six Thousand Eight
Hundred and Fourteen Pounds Current Money, or as much thereof
as may be necessary, for the Payment of the Residue and Remainder
of the Arrears that may be due after the Payment aforesaid, for the
Pay and Subsistence of so many of the said Men as shall appear to
have been employed in the Service of this Province, from the Time
the Money appropriated by the said Act for those Purposes, was
expended, until the Time when they were taken into his Majesty's
Service as aforesaid, by Muster-Roils, to he returned as by the Act
aforesaid is directed, to the Persons herein after appointed, and to
the Pay and Cloathing of so many of the said Men as shall, by
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Muster-Rolls to be returned to the said Persons, appear to have
been taken into and employed in his Majesty's Service, by General
Forbes, from the aforesaid Time when they were by him taken into
his Majesty's Service, to the End of the Campaign in the Year One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-eight; and such Sum as shall
be necessary to the Pay and Subsistence of the said Men, from the
End of the Campaign in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred
and Fifty-eight, during the Time they shall appear by Muster-Rolls
to be returned as last aforesaid, to have been in the Service of this
Province, until they were Disbanded, Discharged, or had Leave of
Absence from the said Service.
XXI. And whereas, by Letters from the Right Honourable
William Pitt, Esq; one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of
State, and General Amherst, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's
Forces in North-America, it appears that our most Gracious Sover-
eign is resolved, by the Blessing of God on his Arms, to improve
the great and important Advantages gained the last Campaign, and
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