ART. LXI. Any Officer who shall presume to muster any person as a Soldier who is at all times accustomed to wear a livery, or who does not actually do his duty as a Soldier, shall be deemed guilty of having made a false muster, and shall suffer accordingly.

ART. LXII. Every Officer who shall knowingly make a false Return to the Commander-in-Chief of the Provincial Forces, or to any of his superiour Officers authorized to call for such Returns of the state of the Regiment, Company, or Garrison, under his command, or of Arms, Ammunition, Clothing, or other Stores thereunto belonging, shall by a Court-Martial be cashiered.

ART. LXIII. The Commanding Officer of every Regiment or other Corps, or of any Garrison in the service aforesaid, shall, in the beginning of every month, remit to the Commander-in-Chief of the said Forces an exact Return of the state of the Regiment, Troops, or other Corps, or of any Garrison under his command, specifying the names of the Officers not then residing at their posts, and the reason for and time of their absence. Whoever shall be convicted of having, through neglect or design, omitted the sending such Returns, shall be punished, according to the nature of their offence, by the judgment of a General Court-Martial.

ART. LXIV. No Sutler shall be permitted to sell any kind of liquor or victuals, or to keep their houses or shops open, for the entertainment of Soldiers, after nine at night, or before the beating the reveilles, or upon Sundays during divine service or sermon, on the penalty of being dismissed from all future sutling.

ART. LXV. All Officers commanding in the Camp, or in any Forts, Barracks, or Garrisons, are hereby required to see that the persons permitted to suttle shall supply the Soldiers with good and wholesome provisions, at a reasonable price, as they shall be answerable for their neglect.

ART. LXVI. No Officer commanding in any Camp, Garrison, Fort, or Barracks, shall either themselves exact exorbitant prices for houses or stalls let out to Sutlers, or connive at the like exactions in others, or lay any duty or imposition upon, or be interested in the sale of such victuals, liquors, or other necessaries of life, which are brought into the Camp, Garrison, Fort, or Barracks, for the use of the Soldiers, on the penalty of being discharged from the service.

ART. LXVII. That the Commanders-in-Chief, for the time being, shall have full power of pardoning or mitigating any of the punishments ordered to be inflicted for any of the offences mentioned in any of the foregoing Articles; and every offender, convicted as aforesaid by any Regimental Court-Martial, may be pardoned, or have his punishment mitigated, by the Colonel or Officer commanding the Regiment.

ART. LXVIII. When any Commissioned Officer shall happen to die, or be killed in the service of this Colony, the Major of the Regiment, or the Officer doing the Major’s duty in his absence, shall immediately secure all his effects or equipage, then in Camp or Quarters, and shall, before the next Regimental Court-Martial, make an inventory thereof, and forthwith transmit the same to the office of the Secretary of the Committee of Safety, to the end that his executors may, after the payment of his debts, in quarter and interment, receive the overplus, if any be, to his or their use.

ART. LXIX. When any Non-Commissioned Officer or Private Soldier shall happen to die, or be killed in the service of this Colony, the then Commanding Officer of the Company shall, in the presence of two other Commissioned Officers, take an account of whatever effects he dies possessed of, and transmit the same, as in the case above provided for, in order that the same may be secured for and paid to their respective representatives.

ART. LXX. No Chaplain who is commissioned to a Regiment, Company, or Garrison, shall absent himself from the said Regiment, Company, or Garrison, (excepting in cases of sickness or leave of absence,) upon pain of being brought to a Court-Martial and punished, as their judgment and the circumstances of the offence may require.

ART. LXXI; Whatever Chaplain to a Regiment or Garrison shall be guilty of drunkenness, or of other scandalous or vicious behaviour, derogating from the sacred character with which he is invested, shall, upon due proofs before a Court-Martial, be discharged from his office.

ART. LXXII. No sentence of a Court-Martial, whereby the pains of death are to be inflicted on any offender, shall be carried into execution till the same hath been approved of by the Committee of Safety, and such approbation certified to the Commander-in-Chief.

ART. LXXIII. The foregoing Rules and Regulations shall be publickly read at the head of each Regiment, once in three months, by order of the Colonel or Commander-in-Chief of such Regiment, under the penalty of fifty Pounds, to be paid by such Colonel or Commander for every neglect.

III. An Ordinance appointing a Committee of Safety, for the more effectual carrying into execution the several Rules and Regulations established by this Convention for the protection of this Colony.

Whereas in the present time of danger, and the alarming and distressed situation of the Country, it is judged necessary that a Committee of Safety should be established, for the better and more effectual carrying into execution the several Ordinances and Resolutions of this Convention:

Be it therefore ordained, by the Delegates deputed to represent the several Counties and Corporations within this Colony, in the present General Convention, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That Edmund Pendleton, George Mason, John Page, Richard Bland, Thomas Ludwell Lee, Paul Carrington, Dudley Digges, William Cabell, Carter Braxton, James Mercer, and John Tabb, Esquires, be, and they are hereby appointed and declared a Committee of Safety throughout this Colony, for the purposes aforesaid.

And the said Committee shall, so soon as may be, assemble at such convenient time and place as may be appointed by the person first named of the said Committee; and being so assembled, and having first taken an oath, to be administered to the Member first named by any two other Members, and afterwards by him to the rest of the Committee, well and faithfully to execute the duties of their office, shall proceed to the election of a President and Vice-President, to act in case of the death or necessary absence of the President, and shall also appoint a Clerk, who, for his services, shall receive such salary as may be judged reasonable by the General Convention. And the said Committee shall have power to adjourn from time to time, and to such place as they think fit and convenient, and if exigencies should occur that may render an intermediate meeting of the said Committee necessary, the President, or, in case of his absence, the Vice-President, may convene the said Committee or any six of them, and proceed to do business as if such meeting was regularly appointed. Provided, that in case of the death, sickness, or necessary absence of the President and Vice-President, the said Committee may choose other of their Members to either office pro tempore.

And the said Committee, or a majority of any six or more Members being present, shall have full power and authority to grant Commissions under their hands to any Officer or Officers, and to appoint any Commissioners, Paymasters, Commissaries, or Contractors, pursuant to the several Ordinances and Resolutions of this Convention, and to issue their Warrants from time to time to the Treasurer appointed by this Convention, or pursuant to their Ordinance, for the payment of all such sums of Money as are or shall be directed to be paid by this Convention to any person whatsoever, or shall be agreed to be paid by the said Committee to any Commissioner, Paymaster, Commissary, or Contractor, either for Provisions, Clothing, Tents, Arms, or other incidental charges, and for their expenses and trouble in procuring the same; and, in general, to carry into complete and full execution all and every the Ordinance and Resolutions of this Convention, according to the true intent and meaning thereof.

And be it further ordained, That the said Committee of Safety, or a majority of them as aforesaid, shall have full power, from time to time, to superintend, direct and appoint stations, marches, and encampments, for the Regular Forces to be raised, so that they may be, on all emergencies, employed