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Furlough, and how long he has been absent on such Account re-
spectively. And if any Soldier or Soldiers shall have Died, Deserted,
or have been Discharged from, or Enlisted into such Company,
since the last Muster thereof, then opposite to their Names respec-
tively shall be notified, and it shall be specified in the said Certificates
when such Soldier or Soldiers Died, Deserted, or were Discharged
or Enlisted. And until the Captain or Commanding Officer of any
Company shall have given such particular Certificates as are above-
mentioned, the said Commissary shall not enter in such Muster-
Roll the Names of any Officers or Men, except such as shall actually
muster and appear before him.

And to deter the Officers from giving false Certificates, Be it
further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all such Certifi-
cates as aforesaid shall be returned to the Agents with the Muster-
Roils aforesaid; and if any Officer shall make or give, or procure
to be made or given, any false or untrue Certificate, such Officer

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shall, upon the Oaths of Two Witnesses, be forthwith cashiered, and
for every such Offence forfeit the Sum of One Hundred Pounds
Current Money, and be moreover disabled to have or hold any
Military or Civil Office within this Province.

[Penalty on
giving false
Certificates.]

And be it further Enacted, That the said Commissary shall always
close the Muster Roll of each Company upon the Place where, and
the Day when, the Muster thereof shall be taken, and the two eldest

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Officers of such Company (who are hereby required to be present,
unless the Duty of their Station obliges them to the contrary), if
so many shall be present, shall, with the said Commissary, subscribe
the said Muster-Rolls; and if the said Commissary, or any such
Officer as aforesaid, shall sign a false or untrue Muster-Roil or
Rolls, they, and each of them, shall, for every such Offence, upon
Proof made thereof by two Witnesses, forfeit the Sum of One
Hundred Pounds Current Money, and be rendered incapable of
holding any Military or Civil Office or Employment within this
Province : And if any Officer having received a Soldier's Pay, shall
detain or withhold the same, or any Part thereof, by the Space of a

[Muster-
Rolls, how to
be closed.]

Fortnight after such Pay shall be by him received, unless such
Soldier shall be on Furlough, and then, if such Officer shall detain
it a Week after the Expiration of the Furlough and Return of the
Soldier to his Duty, such Officer, so offending, shall, upon Proof
thereof, before a General Court-Martial, forfeit Fifty Pounds Cur-
rent Money, and be cashiered; and if the Informer be a Soldier, and
demand a Discharge, he shall be thereupon discharged from any
further Service.

[And Sol-
diers paid.]

And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all the Returns,
Muster-Rolls, Certificates, Accounts, and Receipts, which shall be
returned to the said Agents, agreeable to the Directions of this Act,

[Returns, &c.
to be laid
before the
Assembly.]