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Association, which persons so chcfea shall be gifed Court
Associators.
16. Every General Court of Associators shall consist of
thirteen members, fix of whom shall be commissioned officers
under the rank of field-officer, and fix Court Associators,
who ihall be drawn by lot out of the whole number for the
battalion, and these twelve are to choose a President, who
which the President is required to administer to the other
Members, and the next in rank is required to administer to
him, that they will give judgement with impartiality.
20. All non-commissioned officers, drummers, fifers, or
others, that shall be employed and receive pay in any of the
battalions, companies or troops, shall subscribe these rules
and regulations, and be fu bje& to such fines, to be deduced
from their pay, and to such penalties, as a Regimental Court
of Associators Ihall think proper, upon being convicted of
having tra^fgreffed any of these regulations.
21. All Associators, called as witnesses in any case before
a Court of Associators, who shall refufe to attend and give
evidence, shall be censured or fined at the discretion of the
Court.
22. No officer or soldier, being charged with transgres
sing these rules, shall be fuffered to do duty in the batta
lion, company or troop to which he belongs, until he has had
his trial by a Court of Associators, and every person so charg
ed shall be tried as soon as a Court of Associators can be con
veniently assembled.
23. The officers and soldiers of every company of artillery,
or other company, troop or party, that is or shall be annexed
to any battalion, shall be fubjeft to the command of the Co
lonel or commanding officer of said battalion, and the officers
shall fit as Members of Courts of Associators, in the fame
manner as the officers of any other company.
24. No penalty shall be inflicted, at the discretion of a
Court of Associators, other than degrading, cafhering or fin
ing. The.fines for the officers not to exceed three pounds,
and the fine for a non-commissioned officer or soldier not to
exceed twelve (hillings, for one fault.
25, The field officers of. each and every battalion shall ,ap
point a person, in every company, to receive such fines as
may arise within the fame, for breach of any of these articles
(except for non-attendance) and the commissioned officers of
the company shall, with the approbation of the field officers^
direct those tines to be applied to the relief of the necessitous
soldiers belonging to thapcompany, and the overplus, if any,
to other neceflary expences of the company; and such person
shall account with the field officers, as often as required, for
all such fines received, and the application thereof.
26. The General or Commander in Chief of this Associa
tion, for the time being, shall have full power of pardoning
or mitigating any confutes or penalties ordered to be inflided
shall be a field-officer, and have a calling voice.
17. Every Regimental Court of Associators shall be com
posed of seven members, three officers, three Court Associa
tors, and a President, who. is to be a Captain, and to be cho
sen by the fix, and also to have a calling voice.
18. In all Courts of Associators not less than two thirds of
the members must agree in every fentenee for infli&ing pe
nalties, or for disgracing any Associator, otherwise he shall be
acquitted.
19. The President of each and every Court of Associators,
whether General or Regimental, shall require all witnesses,
in order to the trial of offenders, to declare on oath or affir
mation, that the evidence they shall give is the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth ; and the Members of
all Courts of Associators shall take an oath or affirmation,
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for the breach of any of these articles by any General Court
of Associators ; and every offender, convicted as afore said by
any Regimental Court of Associators, may be pardoned, or
have his penalties mitigated by the Colonel or commanding
officer of the battalion, excepting only where such censures
or penalties are directed as fatisfa&ion for injuries received by
one officer or soldier from another.
27. Any officer, non-commissioned officer, or other person,
who, having fubferibed these articles, Ihall refufe to make
such concessions, pay such fines, or, in any other matter, re
fufe to comply with the judgement of any Court of Associa
tors, Ihall be dismissed the, service,, and returned to the Com
missioners of the county, who fhall,.charge and proceed
against him as a Non-associator, and he ihall farther be
deemed unfriendly to .the liberties of America.
2,8. Upon the determination of any point by a Regimental
Court of Associators, if the officer or soldier concerned on
either fide, thinks himfelf still aggrieved, he may appeal to a.
General Court of Associators ; butjf, upon a second hearing,
the appeal appears groundless and vexatious, the person so
appealing (half be censured at the discretion of the said Ge
neral Court.
V 29. Upon the death, resignation, promotion or other re,
moval of a field officer, standard-bearer, or adjutant, the
officers ofthe battalion ihall chufe a person in his place;
and upon the death, resignation, promotion or removal of
an officer or Court Associator from a troop or company, such
vacancy is to be filled by the person such troop or company
shall cleft. ''
30, No officer or soldier ihall be tried a second time for the
fame offence, except in case of appeal.
31. That when any officers, or soldiers of the Association,
in this province, ihall be called into a&ual service by the
Assembly, or Committee of Safety in recess of Assembly, they
ihall be fubjeft to all the rules and articles made by the Af
lembly at this fitting, for regulating and governing the troops
in the pay of this province, until they are joined to and in
service with Continental troops, and then they ihall be fub
jedt to all the rules and articles already made by the Ho
norable Continental Congress for the government of the
Continental troops; provided always, that no officer
or soldier of the said Association ihall, after such juncr
tion, be tried by any Court Martial, unfefs such Court be
wholly composed of officers of the said Affo,ciati.Qn, if a fuf
ficient number can be had.
32, No commissioned, non-commissioned officer or private,
ihall withdraw himfelf from the company to which he belongs,
without a discharge from the commanding officer of the , batta
lion, nor ihall such person be received into any other com
pany without such discharge.
In testimony of our approbation and consent to be govern
ed by these regulations, which have been deliberately read
to or carefully perused by.u% we have hereunto set our hands.,
T H REE DOLLARS Reward.
RAN away, on. Sunday the igth inst. (April) an Irish
feivant man named DENNIS HENNES,EX, twenty
fix years of age, about five feet four or five inches high, short
black curled hair, flutters and lisps in his fpc^ch, and very
talkative. He had on when he went away, a blue outfid^
jacket, white flannel inside ditto, a pair offtarred Ofnabrug
trousers, and a small round hat, no flockings or shirt. Whog
ever apprehends or secures said servant so that his mailers gets
him again, shall receive the above reward, and all reason
able charges? ' GEORGE DAVIS.