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U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
March 17
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utmost Endeavors & Influence with the Council and Assembly to
Induce them to Raise, with all possible Dispatch within your your
Government, as large a Body of Men as the Number & Situation of
its Inhabitants may allow
I cannot think, S,r that I need Urge any Arguments to Convince
you of the Necessity of an Early Compliance with His Majesty's
Commands as it is more than probable that this Campaign, if Opened
in time & Carried on with Vigor must be that which will at last
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Compell our Enemy to treat in Earnest, on such Terms, as will be
Equally Glorious and Advantageous for His Majesty's Crown &
permanently Beneficial to His American Subjects and I therefore
trust the Assembly will Enable you to put those Commands into
Immediate Execution, Since they terminate in a point, wherein they
are so nearly Concerned & that the Kings principal Object has been
for their present Security, as well as their future Welfare &
prosperity
You will Observe by the Earl of Egremont's Letter, that as a
further Encouragement to a proper Exertion on the part of the
Provinces, his Majesty has ordered, as heretofore, that the Pro-
vincial Forces should be Victualled in the same manner & in the
same Proportions as the Regulars, & that they should be Supplied
with Arms & Tents at the Expence of the Crown.
Moreover, that Strong Recommendations will be made to Parlia-
ment in their Session next year to Grant a Compensation to the
Provinces, according as their respective Vigor & Strenuous Efforts
shall Justly appear to Merit
I have it also in Command from His Majesty to Enjoin you to
Collect & Cause to be put into proper Condition all the Serviceable
Arms that can be found within your Province, for Every one of
which that shall be brought to the Field & shall not return, by reason
of being spoiled, or lost in Actual Service, I shall pay the Usual
Allowance of Twenty five Shillings per Forelock
As it is very Essential to the Services I may have in Command
from the King that I should be, as early as possible, Informed of
the Resolves of your Assembly on this head, and of the time that the
Troops will be ready, I beg that as soon as you are Acquainted
therewith, you will Signify the same to me by Express, that I may
Regulate Myself accordingly
I have likewise Received a Letter from the Earl of Egremont of
the same date with the former, Signifying His Majestys Intentions
of Compleating the Regular Regiments Serving in America, by
Recruits to be Raised by the several Provinces over and above the
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