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<HEAD>EDINBURGH, <HI>October</HI> 20. 1648.</HEAD>
<P>_THE Committee of E&s;tates con&s;idering how nece&s;&s;ary it is that &s;ome orderly cour&s;e be taken how the Forces to be kept up within this Kingdom may be entertained by the publick, with as little burthen as may be to the Country; Have therefore thought fit that a proportionable part of the Maintenance due by the Shires &s;hall be particularly a&s;&s;igned to each Regiment or Troop for their entertainment: And for that end the Committee appoints the maintenance due out of the Shyres of</P>
<P>To be allowed for entertainment of the Regiment or Troop which &s;hould con&s;i&s;t of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"></P>
<P>And to the effect that neither the Publick be prejudged by paying more Souldiers then actually they have on foot, and that the Souldiers al&s;o want none of their due: The Committee ordains that there be a Mu&s;ter of the &s;everal Regiments and Troops, and upon atte&s;tation from the Mu&s;ter-Ma&s;ter of their particular numbers, that the Generall Commi&s;&s;ary and his Deputies accordingly give out particular a&s;&s;ignations upon &s;o much of the Maintenance of the Shires afore&s;aid, as will fall due for their entertainment for the &s;pace of one moneth, and after the expiring of that time, the Mu&s;ter-Ma&s;ter &s;hall take new tryall of the number of the Souldiers, and the Collectors &s;hall al&s;o try whether they have lifted more nor was a&s;&s;igned, and give atte&s;tation thereof, upon report whereof the Generall Commi&s;&s;ary is to renew Orders for their a&s;&s;ignations according to the number atte&s;ted, and where there is more lifted nor was a&s;|&s;igned, he is to give a&s;signations for no more nor what &s;hall be found then due the whole intromi&s;&s;ion being compted; And the Committee al&s;o is to take cour&s;e for the ea&s;e and reparation of the Shires &s;o oppre&s;&s;ed and burthened: And the Generall Commi&s;&s;ary hath hereby power and direction to renew orders for a&s;signations every moneth, from time to time in manner above expre&s;&s;ed, untill he be di&s;charged by the Committee of E&s;tates; And to the end the Souldiers may be the more orderly paid, and the Country people kept from oppre&s;&s;ion: The Committee appoints the Maintenance a&s;signed to any Regiment or Troop to be lifted up in manner after following, <HI>viz.</HI> That the Officer of the Regiment or Troop &s;hall intimate this their A&s;signement received from the General Commi&s;&s;ary unto the Committee of War in the Shire or Shires re&s;pectively, and unto the Collectors thereof, and de&s;ire them to advance in moneys, or give them &s;urety for the paying to them the fir&s;t fortnights pay, from the time of their entry &s;et down in their locality; And that the Committee of War by &s;ome of their number, or others, or by their Collectors, will give them Band for to advance unto them the fir&s;t day of every fortnight thereafter, their fortnights means, which if the Committee of War by them&s;elves, their Collectors or others bin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">e for and perform: The Committee of E&s;tates doth ab&s;olutely di&s;charge any Officer or Souldier belonging to that Regiment or Troop to take any free quarter within that Shire, but &s;eeing they are orderly paid by the Shire, they &s;hall orderly pay for what&s;oever they take, With certification that if upon com|plaint verified to the Officers, he do not make reparation of the wrong, and condignely puni&s;h the offender, the Offi|cer &s;hall be ca&s;hiered with infamy, and be obliged to &s;atisfie the party; Likeas, the Committee Ordains the Officers of that Regiment or Troop having that locality, to furni&s;h what a&s;si&s;tance &s;hall be craved by the Committee of War, or by the&s;e who are bound for them, that they may exact what is due by any deficient for their relief, with allowance of Free quarter to the&s;e who are bound to this &s;ervice, &s;o imployed by them upon the deficient his Lands untill he be pay|ed: But upon the other party, if the Committee of War in the Shires, after this intimation made by the Officers, &s;hall refu&s;e to give &s;urety, by them&s;elves or their Collectors, or by &s;ome others in this orderly way, to advance a fortnights means, from fortninght to fortnight, or if giving the &s;ecurity, they &s;hall fail in the performance: In the&s;e ca&s;es the Com|mittee of E&s;tates gives power and Warrant to the Officers of that Regiment or Troop, for to appoint any of them&s;elves or any other they think fit to lift up the maintenance due by the bonds a&s;&s;igned to them, and for to have Free Quarter upon all &s;uch deficients as will not advance unto them, or give them &s;urety for to pay duly their maintenance the fir&s;t day of every fortnight, untill they get &s;atisfaction therein; but withall, ab&s;olutely di&s;chargeth them to trouble any, or quarter upon any who thus advanceth or &s;ecureth to them what is their due, to be payed at the beginning of every fort|night: And Ordains this to be publi&s;hed at the Market Cro&s;&s;e of <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> and other places needfull, and al&s;o to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>THO. HENDERSON.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>EDINBVRGH,</HI> Printed by EVAN TYLER, Printer to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent MAJESTY, <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1648.</P>
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