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Law, as the Nature of the Offence may require (Death excepted.) And for want of uch Number of Officers to complete a Court Martial, the Offender hall be put under Guard until uch Time as there hall be a ufficient Number for that Purpoe.

XXII. AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforeaid, That when any Brigade hall be ordered into actual Service, the following Rules and Regulations hall be oberved, viz. One Waggon Mater hall be appointed by the Field Officers of every Battalion, ubject to be removed or rejected by the Brigadier General, who, before he enters upon his Duty, hall take an Oath that he hall faithfully execute the aid Office; and the Commiaries hall every Morning make a Return to the Waggon Mater of the Proviions, which the Waggon Mater having examined and compared, hall return igned and certified to the Commanding Officer; and the Waggon Mater hall attend as his pecial Duty to the Arrangement of the Waggons, taking Care that every Morning no more begin the March than one for every Ton of Proviions, except where there may be Half a Ton or upwards over and above what will make a Ton for every Waggon but one, in which Cae the one Waggon hall be kept in Service until o much is conumed as to render it below Half a Ton; and in all Caes where the Quantity over a Ton for each Waggon is les than Half a Ton, the Overplus hall be ditributed into the other Waggons as equally as may be; and every Morning all the empty Waggons hall be dicharged, each Waggon having firt obtained a Certificate from the Waggon Mater, etting forth the Number of Days it had been in Service, and the Place where dicharged, and the Ditance to return; and for every twenty Miles of uch Return each hall be allowed Twenty Shillings, or one Day's Pay, and Half the Sum for uch Carts as hall be employed into Service; and every Waggon Mater hall be allowed to Pay and Rations of a Major. That there be a Paymater to each Brigade, who hall attend the ame, and be allowed Major's Pay and Rations.

XXIII. AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforeaid, That the Diviions made for drafting the Militia in the everal Counties in this State, according to a Reolve of Congres, paed at Halifax in May lat, hall continue; and the Perons who have in Puruance thereof been drafted, and actually called forth in the Service of this State, hall not be again drafted, nor called into actual Service, till according to the Order of the aid Diviions it hall it hall in Rotation come to their Turn to be again drafted and called into actual Service of this State; any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary, notwithtanding.

XXIV. WHEREAS the Penalties incurred by ome of the Militia who refued to march in the late expedition againt the Cherokees, and other Enemies, for the neceary Defence of this State, have been impoed agreeable to Act of Aembly and Reolves of Congres, and whereas ome of the aid Penalties incurred and impoed as aforeaid have not been collected; AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforeaid, That the Colonel or commanding Officer of every Regiment of Militia in this State hall be, and is hereby impowered and authorized to iue his Precept, under his Hand and Seal, directed to the Sheriff of the County where