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VII. AND be it further Enacted, That the commanding Officer of every Regiment hall return an Account of all Expences and Diburements, and Pay, appertaining to the aid Regiment, and hall produce as Vouchers for uch Account, the Account rendered on Oath of the Captains of the everal Companies, and other Perons expending or diburing for the aid Regiment.

VIII. AND be it further Enacted, That there hall be Ten Light Horemen, and no more, from each Regiment, to be arrayed in one or more Companies, when they hall have joined the Brigade, at the Direction of the Brigadier General.

IX. AND be it further Enacted, That no Officer or Soldier in the militia Service hall be tried for any Offence againt the Militia Law, or the Articles of War, except by a Court Martial, to conit only of militia Officers.

X. AND be it further Enacted, That no Brigade, Regiment, Company or Diviion of Militia, hall be under Command of any but militia Officers, except when uch Militia hall be ordered by the civil Power to join the continental Troops; in which Cae, the continental Officer of equal, and the militia Officer of uperior Denomination hall command.

XI. AND be it further Enacted, That uch Diviions as hall at any Time be called into Service, hall be formed into Companies of not les than Fifty Men each, with a proportional Number of Officers, Serjeants, Corporals, Fifers, and Drummers; And all the Officers of each Regiment hall agree among themelves concerning who hall command the Men directed to march into actual Service; but if they cannot agree the commanding Officer hall caue Lots to be draw, and the Officer on whom uch Lot hall fall hall command in their proper Rank and Department.

XII. AND be it further Enacted, That all Perons within the Ages of Sixteen and Fifty, hall be liable to be drafted, and every Peron o drafted obliged to erve, or find an able-bodied Oeron in his Room; Provided that the Council of State, and Public Secretary, and Jutices of the Peace, Miniters of ome Church regularly called, and having the Cure of Souls, and continental Potmaters, hall not be obliged to attend general or private Muters.

XIII. AND be it further Enacted, That for all Defaults at private Muters the Captains of their repective Companies hall iue Citations againt the Delinquents, returnable to the ucceeding Muter, and in Cae of inufficient Caue being hewn for Abence, hall iue his War- rant