464 Assembly Proceedings, February 1674/5.

P. R. O.

Colonial En-
try Book
No. 53

obteyning peace or manageing a Warr with fforeigne or
Domestick Indians And the Delagates of this Present Generall
Assembly being ready and willing to have all Such necessary
Charges defraied and Duly paid Doe humbly pray that it
may be enacted And bee it hereby enacted by the Right
Hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry by and with the consent and advise of
the upper and lower house of this present Generall Assembly
and by the Authority thereof that the Lieuten^t Generall and
Councill be and are hereby impowered for the space of one
whole year from the ffouertenth day of this Instant ffebruary
to Leavy and Rayse all such Charges as shall accrue as afore-
said by an equall assessment Upon all and every the tythable
persons within this Province and for the Ascertaining such pay
as shall be allowed to any Officer or Souldier to be Leavyed
and Raysed for the Carrying on such Warr (if any shall be)
Such Officers and Souldiers shall be paid for their service in
Such Warr according to the Rates and Proporcons as hereafter
in this Act is appointed. That is to say a Collonell or Chiefe
Commander in the ffeild Two Thousand pounds of tobacco per
month if the force Sent out exceed the number of an hundred
men, To a Lieuten^t Collonell ffourteene hundred pounds of
tobacco per month. To a Major Twelve hundred pounds of
tobacco per month, To a Cap^t one thousand pounds of tobacco
per month, To a Lieuten^t Seaven hundred pounds of tobacco
per month, To an Ensigne Six hundred pounds of tobacco per
month, To a Sarjeant ffoure hundred pounds of tobacco per
month, To a Corporall ffoure hundred pounds of tobacco
per month, And to every private Souldier Three hundred
pounds of tobacco per month And that those Rates and Allow-
ances for such officers and Souldiers service as aforesaid shall
be paid and allowed and no more Provided allwaies that if
the forces hereafter to be sent out from Time to Time exceed
one hundred men and amount not unto Two hundred Then
no L^t, Collonell Majors pay be allowed And Provided also that
no pay be allowed to any Officer or Souldier aforesaid unlesse
such Officers and Souldiers be actually in service in ffield as
afores^d and for such time onely at they shall be in actuall
service in the ffield as aforesaid This Act to endure untill the
ffourtenth of ffebruary next and no Longer.