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1054 Said Oath of Fidelity before the said Justice or Chief Magistrate, it shall and may be lawful for such Officer from whom he has received such Money as aforesaid, to detain and confine such Person or Persons until he or they shall take the said Oath of Fidelity; and every Military Officer that shall act contrary hereto, or offend herein, shall incur the like Penalty and Forfeiture as is Act to be inflicted upon any Officer for making a false and untrue Muster; and the Penalty and Forfeiture shall be levied and recovered in the same Manner as any Penalties or Forfeitures Justices may discharge are by this Act to be levied or recovered: Provided always, that every Non-commissioned Officer or Private Soldier who shall inlist any Recruit, shall at the Time of such inlisting enquire the Christian and Surname and Place of Abode of such Recruit, and either take the same down in writing, or give the same to the Non-commissioned Officer commanding the Recruiting Party to taken down: Provided also, that it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace to discharge any Person who shall have hastily inlisted, and who shall apply to him to declare his Dissent within such Four Days as aforesaid, upon Payment of the Sum of Money required to be paid by any Recruit declaring his Dissent under this Act, notwithstanding no Officer, Non-commissioned Officer, or Private Soldier belonging to the Recruiting Party shall be with the Recruit, if it shall appear to such Magistrate upon the Examination of such Recruit, or of any other Person that the Recruiting Party has left the Place where such Recruit was inlisted, or that such Recruit could not procure any Non-commissioned Officer belonging to such Party to go with such Recruit be­fore the Justice of the Peace; and the Sum paid by such Recruit upon his Discharge shall be kept by the Justice of the Peace, and paid when demanded to any Person belonging to the Recruiting Party entitled thereto demanding the same.

Schedules A, B, C, and D, are omitted.

SCHEDULE (E.)

Oath of Allegiance, 39 Geo. III. c. 109.

''A. B. being enlisted to serve, either in His Majesty's Troops, or in the Forces of the East India'' Company, according as His Majesty shall think fit, do swear. That I will bear true Allegiance to our Sovereign Lord King George, and that I will, as in my Duty bound, defend him in His Person, Crown, and Dignity, against all His Enemies; and that so long as I shall remain in His Majesty's Service, I will duly observe and obey His Majesty's Orders and the Orders of the Generals and Officers set over me by His Majesty; and that if His Majesty shall please to appoint me to serve in the Forces of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, then I swear that I will also be true to the said United Company, and will duly observe and, obey all their Orders, and the Orders of their Generals and Officers who shall belawfully set over me.

SCHEDULE (F.) To wit. One of His Majesty's Justices Of the Peace of certify. That aged Years  Feet  Inches high,  Complexion,  Eyes,  Hair, came before me at  on the  Day of  One thousand eight hundred and  and acknowledged that he had voluntarily inlisted himself for the Bounty of  to serve either in His Majesty's Army or in the Forces of the East India Company, according as His Majesty shall think fit to order. And I further certify. That, in my Presence, the Third and Fourth Articles of the Second Section, and the First Article of the Sixth Section of the Articles of War, against Mutiny and Desertion, were read over to him; that he took the Oath of Allegiance pre­scribed by the Act of 39 Geo. c. 109. to be taken instead of the Oath of Fidelity mentioned in the said Articles of War, and also the Oath above set forth; and that he received the Sum of on being attested.