"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 district, and will "make a return of such account or list (if an assessor,) to "the commissioners of the county respectively in which "he resides, on or before the twenty-fifth day of May next "ensuing, or (if a person appointed in the place of an as"sessor) on or before the first day of June 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, is hereby required to ad minister, or by any other proper evidence.

7. The captains of every company are required and enjoined, on or before the 15th day of June 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 25th 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 July 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 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 three pounds ten shillings, on the lists made out by their order as aforesaid.

9. If any apprentice is willing to associate, and his master or mistress will not permit him so to do, or detains him from the parade, on any of the days of exercise herein appointed, such master or mistress shall be liable to the payment of three shillings and six pence for each time he or she shall detain his or her said apprentice; and, if any apprentice of suitable age, shall neglect or refuse to appear, on any of the said days of exercise, not being detained by his said master or mistress, such apprentice, if of estate, shall, by his guardian, pay such penalty.

10. If any commissioner shall neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties required of him, by these resolutions, such commissioner shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds for every such offense, unless such refusal proceeds from conscientious motives; such fine to be recovered, levied and applied .n the same manner, by the same persons, and for the same uses as the fines arising from the delinquency of the assessors; and, in such case, the prothonotaries of the several counties of this province respectively, or their immediate deputies, are hereby enjoined, by and with the concurrence of any two magistrates of said county, to appoint some suitable and proper person, in the place and stead of such commissioner so refusing or neglecting as aforesaid, which person so appointed shall have the same power and authority, and perform the several duties hereby required of the said commissioner;, or, on failure thereof, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds, to be applied as aforesaid; and the said prothonotary and justices shall proceed to appoint another, and so as often as it shall be come necessary.

11. If any person, charged by the commissioners as a non-associator, shall, at the day of appeal, produce to the commissioners a certificate from the commanding officer of any battalion, troop of 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 three 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.

12. 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 on 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 three shillings and six pence, for each of the days of exercise aforesaid, after the death of such non-associator, or the dissolution of the association.

13. If any non-associator, or the parent, guardian, master or mistress of any non-associator, between the ages of 16 and 21 years, or any other non-associator, shall think him or herself aggrieved by the assessment aforesaid, he or she may appeal to the commissioners of the county wherein he or she resides, who, or any two of them, shall meet together on the tenth day of October next ensuing, and so from day to day as long as may be necessary, and at such place or places as the commissioners, or any two of them, shall appoint; of which days and places of meeting, they shall cause the collectors to give due notice to the inhabitants, and then and there the said commissioners, or any two of them, shall hear such appeals as may be made to them, and may discharge such assessments, or lower the same, as to them on consideration of inability of person or estate only, shall appear just and equitable.

14. The said commissioners of the respective counties, or any two of them, within ten days after hearing and determining the appeals made to them, shall rectify and adjust the lists returned as aforesaid, and the assessments thereon, and deliver to the treasurers of the respective counties a true account of the sums total, which every collector shall be charged with, in pursuance of these resolves, and shall cause their clerks to make out and deliver fair duplicates thereof to the respective collectors of the townships, boroughs, wards and districts, within their respective counties, who shall collect the said sums, keeping exact and separate accounts of the sums so charged on non-asso

ciators, and shall pay the same into the hands of the respective county treasurers, who shall pay the same into the hands of Michael Hillegas, Esquire, to be applied to the same purposes as the fines and penalties collected from the association are limited and directed. And all persons shall be liable to the payment of the said sums, in the same manner, and the collectors shall have the same powers, and shall proceed in collecting and levying the said sums, and shall be accountable, in the same manner as is directed by the act, entitled "An act for raising county rates and levies."

15. The allowances to the collectors of such assessments, and to the treasurers respectively, shall be the same with those appointed and directed in the collection of fines from associators for non-attendance.

16. The treasurers of the respective counties, before they enter on the duties hereby required of them, shall give the like security, for the faithful discharge of their office, to the commissioners of their several counties, that they are now obliged, by the laws of this province, to give for the due payment of provincial taxes.

17. All and every person and persons, who are required or enjoined by these resolutions. or any of them, to discharge or perform any of the offices or duties herein before mentioned, are hereby further earnestly and solemnly required and enjoined, with all diligence and fidelity, strenuously to exert themselves in discharging and performing such offices and duties, and every part thereof, as they regard the freedom, security and happiness of their country.

Whereas, a number of spirited Germans and other foreigners, not entitled to the privileges of freemen of this province, have cheerfully associated in its defense, and shown a readiness to expose their lives therefor, if necessary:

Resolved, Therefore, that every such person producing a certificate under the hand and seal of the commanding officer of any battalion, in the military association of this province, signifying that such person has signed the articles of the association and served pursuant thereto, and, in case of an invasion or alarm, has, upon his own account, gone forth into actual ser

vice, such person shall be and is hereby recommended to the special notice and encouragement of this and any future assembly, in order to his being put in the same condition, and entitled to the same rights and privileges, as natural born subjects within this province now are.

Upon motion,

Resolved, That the committee of safety procure a sufficient number of complete copies of the "Rules and Regulations for the better Government of the Military Association in Pennsylvania," "The Articles of the said Association," and the "Resolutions directing the Mode of Levying Taxes on Non-Associators in Pennsylvania," as amended at this sitting, to be immediately printed in the English and German languages, and transmitted to the commanding officers of the several battalions, and to the commissioners of the several counties in this province.

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The committee appointed last night to bring in a draft of rules and articles for the troops in pay of this province agreeable to the alterations directed by the house, reported an essay for that purpose, which being read and agreed to, the same was transcribed by order, and follows in the words, viz.:

Rules and Articles for the Government of the Pennsylvania

Forces.

Whereas the inhabitants of this province are under an indispensable necessity of raising an armed force for their immediate security and protection, and to repel any hostile attacks which may be made upon them:

For the due regulating and governing whereof:

Resolved, That the following rules and articles be attended to, obeyed and observed by such troops as are or may be raised and in the pay of this province.

Art. 1. It is earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers diligently to attend Divine service; and all officers and soldiers, who shall behave indecently or irreverently at any place of Divine worship, shall, if commissioned officers, be brought before a court martial, there to be publicly and sev erely reprimanded by the president; if non-commissioned offi