The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-04-25 00:00:00, page 3

Thirty-third. Adjutants, drummers and fifers, (hall receive
the following pay for every day of service they attend their
lefpedive battalions or companies by order of the command
ing officer.
An Adjutant seven (hillings and sixpence. A drummer
three (hillings ; a filer three (hidings. The Drum-Major
and File-Major of every battalion (hall receive each a lum
not exceeding fifteen (hillings per week, and be continued in
pay as long as the Colonels of the several battalions (hall
think necessary ; and it is lequired, that Inch l Drum-Majors
and Fife-Majors, when not in service on days of exerctfe,
(hall be diligently employed in ißltru&ng a proper, number of
perlons lor drummers and fifers of the several battalions.
That, instead of an Adjutant on pay, there be a Serjeant-
Major to each battalion of the city of Philadelphia, who
shall receiye a funs not exceeding eightdollars per month,
and be continued in pay as long as the Colonels of the seve
ral battalions shall think necessary, provided the fame be not
extended beyond the lecond Monday in October. next,
Thirty-fourth. All officers and loldicrs of the Aflooiation
when employed on military watch and ward, or when called
into actual service, in case of an invafionorinfurrettion, or
imminent danger of either, by this House of Allembiy, or,
in their recels, by the Committee.of Safety, shall, while on
such watch, or in such lei vice, be entitled to and receive the
fame pay that the, officers and ipldiers of the. Continental
troops receive.
Thirty-fifth. If any officer or soldier, not labouring under
any inhimity incapacitating him to lerve, shall, when so cal
led into actualjervice, refuie to appear anr march with his
arms, ammunition and accoutrements (or ..if, a soldier) shall
refuie to provide a furtable perlon-well clothed, armed and
accoutred, to march in his itead, such person to be approved,
by the commanding officer of the battalion, or if any.omcer or
soldier, having entered,on such service, Ihall,depart without
leave of such commanding, officer, he shall be held up to the
public as a coward and betrayer of his country ;, provided al?
ways, that no Ahoci,ator be detained, in actual service,
longer than two, months, at one time, withou^his free con,
sent.,
Thirty-sixth. If any Associator, fcrcalled into actual ser
vice, shall leave a family not of ability to maintain them
fely.es in his absence, the everfeers of the poor, with the con
currence of one justice of the peace of the city or county
where such Associator. did reside, ihall immediately make pro?
vision, by way of out pension, for the maintenance of such
family; and a true and proper account being kept thereof,
Shall be returned to the ABembly, in order that the fame may
be made a provincial expence, and paid accordingly.
Thirty-levenih. When, any-of, the Associators Ihall be so
called into actual service, the commissioners of the refpe&ive
counties, or any one of them, shall immediately provide such
carriages as may be necessary for their accommodation,, at the
expence of the public. ,
Thirty-eighth; As there may happen occasions wherein it
may be neceliary to.call out a part of the Associators to a&uaL
through temporary service, and not the whole body, and it
would be inconvenient and burthenfome, if, upon every alarm,
where the assistance of part only may be wanted; the whole
should come together, or a much greater number than the oc
casion required, it is recommended that orders may issue
from the Affembiy, or, in their recels, the Committee of
Safety, to the Colonels, either to march their whole battalion,
or to fend to an appointed rendezvous one or more companies,
as they may be.wanted ; and, in the latter case, such company,
to be formed by draughts out of the companies, and to becom-
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manded by an officer, out of each company, on the tour of
duty—each company serving on such calls, in its turn, and
for such proportion of time as shall make the burthen nearly
equal ; and if the Associators, who are called forth, are not
all provided with good arms, it is recommended to aft those
who have such, and are not called out, to lend the fame for
that occasion, at the risk of the public.
Thirty-ninth. The field officers of every battalion shall ap
point some person in each company of their refpedive batta
lions, in whom they can confide, and the officers in every
troop of horse and company of artillery shall, in like man
ner, choose some person in their troop-or company refpedive
ly whose names shall be returned, by the fa id officers respec
tively, to the county Treasurers for the Provincial taxes in
their tcveral counties, which persons so appointed ' shall, from
time-to time, collect all fines incurred by the Associators for
non-attendance, and shall severally pay the fame to the said
county Treasurers refpe&ively, firft^deduaing a commission
of five per. cent 3 for their tr üble^. which said county Trea
surers relpedively shall pay-the fame to Michael Hillegas,
Esq; Treasurer, after deducting a commission of one per cent,
for their trouble ; and then the said monies shall be appro
priated in the fobowing manner : Firlt; To the support and
relief of fuch.poor Associators, as, being called out to actual
service, shall be-maimed and wounded therein, so as to be in
any respect unable to support themfelves' or families. Se-'
condly, For the support and relief of the widows and chil
dren of such poor Alibciators, as, being called into a&ual ser
vice, shall be killed therein. The surplus of said monies
to-be applied as this or any future Assembly shall direct. And
the said Michael Hidegas shall be allowed, for his trouble
herein, five (hillings for every hundred pounds so received
ana paid by him/ ft is directed, that the said Collector fhall'
account with the officers, who severally appointed them, as
often as such officers fhalfrequire them so to do ; andthe said
ofhcersJhall, in due time, transmit the accounts of the said
Collectors to the refpe&ive. county Treasurers for the Brovin- 1
cial taxes.
WATERTO W N, April 15..,
The. following form of a letter was found among the papers
of Clean Brush, who was taken in his flight from Boston to
Halifax, and last week brought before the Honorable Coun
cil, and is published that the good people of these colonies
may . fee the unwearied attempts, of our implacable enemies
to enllave them. ...
"SIR,.
" The movement of the troops from Bolton to Canada
isthe only measure which assures success in the reduction of
America to due obedience, which I trust, Sir, you will remem
ber to have been an observation of mine to you in February
1765. From the frontiers of that province, the troops can
with great facility possess. the interior fertile country,
which forms the great object of the rebels resources, and
by throwing the dilaffe&ed inhabitants in crowds upon a#
already exhausted and almost barren sea coast, and keeping
them confined there, they muff be reduced by famine, with
out a blow, 1 rovided a proper fleet is Rationed on % the coast of
the Atlantic, to harrafs them on that quarter, and prevent fo
reign fuccours. -The rivers, lakeland dreams connected with
and contiguous to the river St. Lawrence, must be the chan
nels. through which this defireable objed is to be accompli l
shed ; the river Kenebeck, whose iource, and that of the
river Shaudier, emptying into the St. Lawrence river, a few
miles above Quebec ; the Saco river, which separates the pro
vince of New Hamplhire from the province of Main ; the