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(which Certificate 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.
XXX. And for the Encouragement of such able-bodied Men as
shall venture their Lives in his Majesty's Service, under this Act,
and shall happen to be maimed, or rendered incapable to get a Liveli-
hood for themselves or Families, Be it Enacted, That every able-
bodied Person who shall adventure as aforesaid, and 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 Allowance 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 is an Object of Charity, and deserves to have such
Pension and Allowance.
XXXI. And be it further Enacted, That Mr. William Murdock,
and Mr. Nicholas Maccubbin, shall be, and are hereby appointed
Agents, for paying all Sums of Money due for the Pay and Sub-
sistence of so many 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 Inhabitants of this Province, as shall appear to have
been employed in the Service of this Province, by Muster-Rolls to
be returned upon Oath to the Agents aforesaid, from the Time the
Money appropriated by the said Act for that Purpose, was expended,
until the Time they were taken into his Majesty's Service by General
Forbes; and for paying all Sums of Money due for the pay and
Cloathing of so many of the said Men, as shall appear by Muster-
Roils, to be returned as aforesaid, to have been employed in the
said Service, from the Time aforesaid, to the End of the Campaign
in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-eight; and
also all Charges and Expences that may accrue in Raising, Cloathing
and Paying the aforesaid One Thousand Men, Officers included;
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L. H. J.
Liber No. 51
April 8
p. 224
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