whether general or regimental, shall require all witnesses, in order to the trial of offenders, to declare on oath or affirmation, that the evidence they shall give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and the members of all courts of associators shall take an oath or affirmation, which the president is required to administer to the other members; and the next in rank is required to administer to him, that they will give judgment with impartiality.

20. All non-commissioned officers, drummers, fifers, or others, that shall be employed and receive pay in any of the battalions, companies or troops, shall subscribe these rules and regulations, and be subject to such fines, to be deducted from their pay, and to such penalties as the regimental court of associators shall think proper, upon being convicted of having transgressed any of these regulations.

21. All associators called as witnesses in any case before a court of associators, who shall refuse to attend and give evidence, shall be censured or fined at the discretion of the court.

22. No officer or soldier, being charged with transgressing these rules, shall be suffered to do duty in the battalion, company or troop, to which he belongs, until he has had his trial by a court of associators; and every person so charged, shall be tried as soon as the court of associators can be conveniently assembled.

23. The officers and soldiers of every company of artillery, or other company, troop or party, that is or shall be annexed to any battalion, shall be subject to the command of the colonel or commanding officer of said battalion; and the officers shall sit as members of courts of associators, in the same manner as the officers of any other company.

24. No penalty shall be inflicted at the discretion of a court of associators, other than degrading, cashiering or fining: The fines of the officers not to exceed three pounds, and the fine for a non-commissioned officer or soldier not to exceed twelve shillings, for one fault.

25. The field officers of each and every battalion shall appoint a person, in every company, to receive such fines, as may arise within the same, for breach of any of these articles (except for

non-attendance) and the commissioned officers of the company, shall with the approbation of the field officers, direct those fines to be applied to the relief of the necessitous soldiers belonging to that company; and the overplus, if any, to other necessary expenses of the company; and such person shall account with the field officers, as often as required, for all such fines received, and the application thereof.

26. The general or commander in chief of this association, for the time being, shall have full power of pardoning or miti gating any censures or penalties ordered to be inflicted, for the breach of any of these articles, by any general court of associators; and every offender, convicted as aforesaid by any regimental court of associators, may be pardoned, or have his penalties mitigated by the colonel or commanding officer of the battalion; excepting only where such censures or penalties are directed as satisfaction for injuries received by one officer or soldier from another.

27. Any officer, non-commissioned officer, or other person, who, having subscribed the articles, shall refuse to make such concessions, pay such fines, or in any other matter refuse to comply with the judgment of any court of associators, shall be dismissed the service, and returned to the commissioners of the county, who shall charge and proceed against him as a nonassociator, and he shall further be deemed unfriendly to the liberties of America.

28. Upon the determination of any point by a regimental court of associators, if the officer or soldier concerned on either side, thinks himself still aggrieved, he may appeal to a general court of associators; but if, upon a second hearing, the appeal appears groundless and vexatious, the person so appealing shall be censured at the discretion of the said general court.

29. Upon the death, resignation, promotion, or other removal of a field officer, standard bearer, or adjutant, the officers of the battalion shall choose a person in his place, and upon the death, resignation, promotion, or other removal of an officer, or court associator, from a troop or company, such vacancy is to be filled by the person such troop or company shall elect.

30. No officer or soldier shall be tried a second time for the same offense, except in case of appeal.

31. All officers and soldiers of every battalion, troop, company or party of associators, who shall be called by the assembly, or committee of safety in recess of assembly, into actual service, shall be subject to all the rules and articles already made by the Honorable Congress for the government of the continental troops.

32. No commissioned, non-commissioned officer or private, shall withdraw himself from the company to which he belongs, without a discharge from the commanding officer of the battalion; nor shall such person be received into any other company without such discharge.

In testimony of our approbation and consent to be governed by these regulations, which have been deliberately read to, or carefully perused by us, we have hereunto set our hands.

Resolutions directing the Mode of Levying Taxes on Non-Associators in Pennsylvania.

1. The assessors of the several townships, boroughs, wards and districts within this province, are required, on or before the twenty-fifth day of March next ensuing, to make in writing and deliver an exact list of the names and surnames of every male white person, capable of bearing arms, between the ages of sixteen and fifty years, (ministers of the Gospel of all denominations, and servants purchased bona fide and for a valuable consideration, only excepted) residing in such township, borough, ward or district, to the commissioners of the county chosen by virtue of the act for raising of county rates and levies. 2. If any assessor shall neglect or refuse to perform the duty aforesaid, the commissioners of the respective counties, or any two of them, are hereby required and enjoined to fine him in any sum not exceeding ten pounds, unless such assessor's refusal proceeds from conscientious motives; and such fine shall be levied and recovered in the same manner as is directed by the laws of this province for levying and recovering fines imposed on assessors refusing or neglecting to perform the duties therein required of them, to be paid into the hands of the respective

county treasurers, to be by them delivered to the same person, and applied to the same use as the other moneys directed to be levied by the resolves of this house.

3. The commissioners of the respective counties, or any two of them, are hereby required and enjoined to appoint some proper person to make out the list aforesaid, in the place of the assessor so refusing or neglecting; which person so appointed shall make out and return such list to the commissioners on or before the first day of May next ensuing.

4. Every assessor, or person appointed in his place as aforesaid, shall, before he begins to make out the lists aforesaid, take an oath or affirmation, which any magistrate of the county is hereby required and enjoined to administer, without fee or reward:

"That he will go to the place or places of abode of all and "every person and persons residing within his township, bor"ough, ward or district, and make a faithful and diligent in"quiry of, and endeavor, by all other lawful ways and means "in his power, to procure a true and exact account and list of "the names and surnames of all male white persons capable "of bearing arms, who are between the ages of sixteen and "fifty years, residing within his township, borough, ward or dis"trict, and will make a return of such account or list (if an as"sessor) to the commissioners of the county respectively in "which he resides, on or before the twenty-fifth day of March "next ensuing, or (if a person appointed in the place of an as"sessor) on or before the first day of May next ensuing."

5. Every assessor, or other person appointed and acting in the place of an assessor as aforesaid, shall receive for his trouble in making out and returning such lists the sum of four shillings for every day he shall be employed in that service.

6. If any dispute shall arise, concerning the age of any nonassociator, the same shall be determined before the commissioners of the county, or any two of them, by oath or affirmation of the person whose age is in question, which oath or affirmation the said commissioners or any of them are hereby required to administer, or by any other proper evidence.

7. The captains of every company are required and enjoined, 33-VIII

on or before the fifteenth day of March next ensuing, to deliver under his hand, to the colonel of the battalion to which he belongs, a copy of the articles of association, signed by the associators of his company, therein mentioning the county and the township, borough, ward or district, in which each of the said associators resides, which the colonel shall carefully keep, and therefrom shall immediately make out and return, on or before the twenty-fifth day of the same month, a fair duplicate, to the commissioners aforesaid, of the respective counties in which the said associators respectively reside.

8. The said commissioners, or any two of them, are required on or before the first day of June next ensuing, to meet together and cause their clerks to make out fair lists of the names and surnames of all persons mentioned in the duplicates returned to them, as aforesaid, with their places of abode, who appear, by the duplicates returned by the colonels, not to have signed the articles of association; and thereupon the said commissioners are required to charge every such person not associating, over and above the rates and assessments set upon him by virtue of the laws of this province, the sum of two pounds ten shillings, on the lists made out by their order, as aforesaid.

9. If any person, charged by the commissioners as a non-assoriator, shall, at the day of appeal, produce to the commissioners a certificate from the commanding officer of any battalion, troop or horse, or company of artillery, that he has become an associator in such battalion, troop or company, the commissioners, or any two of them, shall make an allowance in favor of such person, of two shillings and six pence for each of the days of exercise appointed by this House after such person became an associator, on which he attended his battalion, troop or company, or has been fined for non-attendance.

10. If any person, charged by the commissioners as a non-associator, shall die before the day of appeal, or if before that day, an accommodation shall be made between Great Britain and the colonies of this continent, and in consequence thereof, the military association in this province shall be dissolved; in either of those cases the commissioners, or any two of them, shall make an abatement in the assessment charged as aforesaid, of two