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<DIV1 TYPE="Act of Parliament">
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An Act enabling the Militia of the City of
LONDON to Rai&s;e HORSE within the &s;aid City
and Liberties, For Defence of the Parliament, City of <HI>London,</HI> and Liberties
thereof, and the parts adjacent.</HEAD>
<P>_THE Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> doe Enact and Declare, and it is hereby
Enacted and Declared, That the Committee of the <HI>Militia</HI> of the City of
<HI>London,</HI> or any nine or more of them, &s;hall have power, and are hereby
authorized to charge &s;uch Inhabitants who are con&s;tantly dwelling
within the &s;aid City and Liberties thereof, and &s;uch per&s;ons who have
Stocks going in trade within the limits afore&s;aid, and ab&s;ent them&s;elves,
as they or any Nine of them &s;hal e&s;teem able to find and maintain Hor&s;es,
with Furniture and Rider, or Hor&s;e and furniture without Rider, at their proper charges, for
the defence of the Parliament, City of <HI>London,</HI> Liberties and parts adjacent; &s;o as no per&s;on
&s;hall be charged for the rai&s;ing and maintaining of more then two Hor&s;es, Furniture and
Riders, to be put under &s;uch Commanders and Officers as the &s;aid Committee &s;hall think
fit: And the &s;aid Hor&s;e being Li&s;ted, Trained and Exerci&s;ed, to bee employed by the &s;aid
Committee, or by &s;uc whom they &s;hall appoint, to &s;uppre&s;&s;e all Tumults Rebellions, and
In&s;urrections that &s;hall happen within the &s;aid City, and Liberties, and parts adjacent.</P>
<P>And it is further Enacted; That if any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall be charged to find Hor&s;e,
Furniture and Riders, or Hor&s;e and Furniture without Riders as afore&s;aid, and &s;hall
refu&s;e or neglect to provide the &s;ame within eight dayes after notice thereof given to them in
per&s;on, or left in writing at their dwelling, &s;hall forfeit and pay twenty pounds; and if
they or any of them &s;hall neglect or refu&s;e to &s;end forth their Hor&s;e, with Furniture and
Rider, or Hor&s;e and furniture without Rider, provided and furni&s;hed as afore&s;aid, when and
as often as he or they &s;hall be &s;ummoned thereunto by the &s;aid Committee of the <HI>Militia,</HI> or
&s;uch Commanders or Officers as they &s;hall appoint, in default thereof &s;hall forfeit and pay
Forty &s;hillings upon every &s;uch failing, or &s;uffer four days Impri&s;onment, without Baile
or Mainprize, to be inflicted upon every &s;uch Offender; and the &s;everal Penalties afore&s;aid to
be levyed by Di&s;tre&s;&s;e, and &s;ale of the Goods of &s;uch Offenders, by the &s;aid Committee of
the <HI>Militia,</HI> or &s;uch as they &s;hall appoint; And the &s;aid Committee &s;hall have power, and
are hereby authorized to give &s;uch &s;atisfaction to &s;uch per&s;ons as they &s;hal imploy in levying
the &s;aid Fines as the Committee of the <HI>Militia</HI> &s;hal think rea&s;onable; &amp; the moneys &s;o rai&s;ed,
to be employed by the &s;aid Committee, for the payment of the forces under their command: and
that all &s;uch per&s;ons that &s;hall be charged to find Hor&s;e, Furniture and Riders as afore&s;aid,
and &s;hal yeeld obedience thereunto, &s;hal during that time be freed from &s;ervice in the Trained|bands
and Auxiliaries within the &s;aid City and Liberties thereof. Provided alwaies, That
the number of the Hor&s;e exceed not Six hundred, and the Riders thereof be &s;uch as the Com|mittee
of the <HI>Militia,</HI> or &s;uch as they &s;hal appoint, &s;hall approve of. And it is further Enacted,
That hereafter Proclamations &s;hall be made, and Summons given by beat of Drum, or
otherwi&s;e, <HI>In the Name of the Parliament of the Common-wealth of <HI>England,</HI> and for their Safety,
and the Safety of the City of <HI>London,</HI> Liberties thereof, and parts adjacent.</HI> Provided, That
this Act doe continue in force untill the four and twentyeth day of <HI>June,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix
hundred fifty and one, and no longer.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Die Martis, 4 Iunii, 1650.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Ordered by the Parliament, That this Act be forthwith printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. Scobell Cler. Parliament.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>London, <HI>Printed by</HI> Richard Cotes, 1650.</P>
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