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XXXIII. 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 Highways,
and from Payment of Ferriages, for the Space of three Years next
after the producing such Discharge or Certificate.

XXXIV. 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
Livelihood 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;

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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.
XXXV. 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-
Rolls, 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 Four Hundred Men, Officers included; and

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