employed on military watch and ward, or when called into actual service in case of an invasion or insurrection, or imminent danger of either, by this house of assembly, or in their recess by the committee of safety, shall, while on such watch or in such service, be entitled to and receive the same pay that the officers and soldiers of the continental troops receive.

Thirty-fourth. If any officer or soldier, not laboring under any infirmity, incapacitating him to serve, shall, when so called into actual service, refuse to appear and march with his arms, ammunition and accoutrements, or shall depart without leave of the commanding officer, he shall be held up to the public as a coward and a betrayer of his country.

Thirty-fifth. If any associator, so called into actual service, shall leave a family not of ability to maintain themselves in his absence, the justices of the peace of the city or county, and the overseers of the poor of the city, township or district respectively, shall immediately make provision for the maintenance of such family.

Thirty-sixth. When any of the associators shall be so called into actual service, the commissioners of the respective counties, or any one of them, shall immediately provide such carriages as may be necessary for their accommodation, at the expense of the public.

Thirty-seventh. As there may happen occasions wherein it may be necessary to call out a part of the associators to actual though temporary service, and not the whole body, and it would be inconvenient and burdensome, if upon every alarm, where the assistance of a part only may be wanted, the whole should come together, or any much greater number than the occasion required, it is recommended that orders may issue from the committee of safety to the colonels, either to march their whole battalions, or to send to an appointed rendezvous one or more companies, as they may be wanted, according to the respective rank of the companies, each company serving on such calls in its turn, and for such proportion of time as shall make the burthen nearly equal; and if the associators, who are called forth, are not all provided with good arms, it is recommended to

those who have such, and are not called out, to lend the same for that occasion, at the risk of the public.

Thirty-eighth. The field officers of every battalion shall appoint some person in each company of their respective battalions, in whom they can confide, and the officers in every troop of horse and company of artillery, shall in like manner choose some person in their troop or company respectively, whose name shall be returned by the said officers respectively to the county treasurers for the provincial taxes in their several counties, which persons so appointed shall from time to time collect all fines incurred by the associators in their companies for non-attendance, and shall severally pay the same to the said county treasurers respectively, first deducting a commission of five per centum for their trouble, which said county treasurers respectively shall pay the same to Michael Hillegas, Esquire, after deducting a commission of one per centum for their trouble; and the said Michael Hillegas having exchanged the said money, in which such fine shall be so paid, into bills of credit of this province emitted by this or the late house of assembly, after deducting five shillings for every hundred pounds for his trouble, shall deliver the same into the hands of the committees of assembly appointed to audit and settle the public accounts, to be be by them burnt, sunk and destroyed in abatement of the taxes. It is directed, that the said collector shall account with the officers who severally appointed them as often as such officers shall require them so to do, and the said officers shall in due time transmit the accounts of the said collectors to the respective county treasurers for the provincial taxes.

Lastly. This house having drawn up the following articles of agreement, for all the associators in the province, they do earnestly recommend the same to be adopted, signed and agreed to by all the said associators, in order that one general system may prevail in Pennsylvania.

Articles of Association in Pennsylvania.

We the officers and soldiers engaged in the present association for the defense of American liberty, being fully sensible that the strength and security of any body of men, acting to

gether, consists in just regularity, due subordination, and exact obedience to command, without which no individual can have that confidence in the support of those about him, that is so necessary to give firmness and resolution to the whole, do voluntarily and freely, after consideration of the following articles, adopt the same as the rules and regulations by which we agree and resolve to be governed in all our military concerns, and operations, until the same, or any of them, shall be changed or dissolved by the Assembly of this province, or a happy reconciliation shall take place between Great Britain and the colonies.

1. If any officer make use of any profane oath or execration, when on duty, he shall forfeit and pay for each and every such offense, the sum of five shillings; and if a non-commissioned officer or soldier be thus guilty of cursing or swearing, he shall forfeit and pay for each and every such offense the sum of one shilling.

2. Any officer or soldier, who shall refuse to obey the lawful orders of his superior officer, may be suspended from doing duty on that day, and shall, upon being convicted thereof before a regimental court of associators, make such concessions as said court shall direct.

3. Any officer or soldier who shall begin, excite, cause, join in or promote, any disturbance in the battalion, troop or company to which he belongs, or in any other battalion, troop or company, shall be fined or censured according to the nature of the offense, by the judgment of a general or regimental court of associators.

4. Any officer or soldier who shall strike his superior officer, or draw, or offer to draw, or shall lift up any weapon, or offer any violence against him, being in the execution of his office, shall, upon a conviction before a general or regimental court of associators, be dismissed and shall be deemed to be thereby disgraced as unworthy the company of freemen.

5. Any commanding or other officer, who shall strike any associator when on duty, shall, upon conviction, before a general court of associators, suffer such punishment as the said court shall inflict.

6. Any officer or soldier who shall make use of insolent, provoking or indecent language while on duty, shall suffer such censure or fine as shall be inflicted by a general or regimental court of associators, according to the nature of the offense.

7. If any officer or soldier shall think himself injured by his colonel or the commanding officer of the battalion, and shall, upon due application made to him be refused redress, he may complain to the general or commander in chief of the Pennsylvania associators, or to the colonel of any other battalion, who shall summon a general court of associators, that justice may be done.

S. If any inferior officer or soldier shall think himself injured by his captain or other superior officer in the battalion, troop or company to which he belongs, he may complain to the commanding officer of the battalion, who shall summon a regimental court of associators for the doing justice, according to the nature of the case.

9. No officer, non-commissioned officer or soldier shall fail of repairing with his arms and accoutrements on any of the days appointed by the assembly for exercising, to the place of parade, or other rendezvous appointed by the commanding officer, if not prevented by sickness, or some other evident necessity, or shall go from place of parade or rendezvous without leave from the commanding officer before he shall be regularly dismissed, on penalty of two shillings and six pence.

10. Any officer or soldier found drunk, when under arms, shall be suspended from doing duty in the battalion, company or troop, on that day, and be fined or censured at the discretion of a general or regimental court of associators.

11. Whatever sentinel shall be found sleeping or drunk on his post, or shall leave it before he is regularly relieved, shall suffer such penalty or disgrace, as shall be ordered by a regi mental court of associators.

12. Whatever commissioned officer shall be convicted, before a general court of associators, of behaving in a scandalous or infamous manner, unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, shall be dismissed from the association with disgrace.

13. Every non-commissioned officer or soldier who shall be convicted at a regimental court of associators, of having sold, carelessly lost, willfully spoiled or wasted, or of having offered for sale, any ammunition, arms or accoutrements belonging to this province, shall be dismissed his battalion, troop or company as an unworthy member, and be prosecuted as the law directs.

14. All disorders and neglects, which officers or soldiers may be guilty of, to the prejudice of the good order and military discipline of the association of this colony, are to be taken cog nizance of by a general or regimental court of associators, ac cording to the nature and degree of the offense, and such officers or soldiers shall be fined or censured at the discretion of the court.

15. That, on the first meeting of every company, after subscribing these articles of association, and from thence forward, on the first meeting of every company, after the last Monday in February annually, there shall be chosen by the non-commissioned officers and privates, out of each company in the respective battalions, two persons who are entitled to vote for members of assembly, whose duty and office shall be, for the year following, to sit and join with the officers in courts of association, which persons so chosen shall be styled court-associators.

16. Every general court of associators shall consist of thir teen members, six of whom shall be commissioned officers, under the rank of a field officer, and six court associators, who shall be drawn by lot out of the whole number for the battalions; and these twelve are to choose a president, who shall be a field officer, and have a casting voice.

17. Every regimental court of associators shall be composed of seven members; three officers, three court associators, and a president, who is to be a captain, and to be chosen by the six; and also to have a casting vote.

18. In all courts of associators, not less than two-thirds of the members must agree in every sentence for inflicting penalties, or for disgracing any associator, otherwise he shall be acquitted.

19. The president of each and every court of associators,