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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
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claim Allowance for on such accounting; and by the First Day of
November next, shall, in like Manner, account with the said Agents,
and deliver in Receipts as aforesaid, for all such Sums of Money as
they shall then claim Allowance for on such their accounting, and the
Remainder of the said Sums then in their Hands respectively they
shall then pay to the said Agents, to be by them applied to the other
Purposes of this Act, if Occasion be; but the said Agents shall not
allow to any Persons impowered to Enlist and Raise Men as afore-
said, in any such Settlement as aforesaid, for the Bounty-Money for
Enlisting and Raising any Men (unless in Case of Death or actual
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Desertion, to be made appear to the Satisfaction of such Agents)
until he shall produce a Certificate from some Person impowered by
his Excellency the Governor or Commander in Chief of this Prov-
ince, that such Man was able-bodied and fit for the Service aforesaid,
and has passed Muster at some Place, and before some Person, for
that Purpose appointed; nor shall they allow more than at the Rate
of Twelve Pounds per Man for the whole Number of Men to be
Enlisted by any one Person to be commissioned as aforesaid, and
Twenty Shillings to such Person as a Reward for Enlisting the
said Men.
XXVII. And to prevent any Abuses or Impositions by Public
House-Keepers, in whose House any Soldier may be Quartered or
Billetted; Be it Enacted, That no Public House-Keeper, at any Time
before the First Day of November next, shall charge to, or receive
from, any Officer under the Degree of a Captain, or private Soldier,
Quartered or Billetted in his or her House, more than the following
Rates, viz. For a Commission Officer, under the Degree of a Captain,
for his Lodging, and Diet of such good and wholesome Food as is
usually provided by Ordinary-Keepers in this Province, with small
Beer or Cyder, the Sum of Eighteen Pence Current Money per Diem :
and for a private Soldier, for his Lodging and Diet as aforesaid,
with small Beer or Cyder, the Sum of One Shilling per Diem.
XXVIII. And be it further Enacted, That if any Person shall,
from and after the End of this Session of Assembly, before the
First Day of November next, harbour or conceal, or assist, any
Deserter from the Service aforesaid, knowing him to be such, or shall
knowingly buy or exchange, or otherwise receive, any Cloaths, Arms,
or Military Accoutrements, from any Soldier 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.
XXIX. 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 Com-
manding Officer of his good Behaviour therein, and that at the
Time of his Enlistment he was able-bodied and fit for the Service
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