depart without leave of the Commanding Officer, he shall be held up to the publick as a coward and a betrayer of his Country.

Thirty-Fifth. If any Associator so called into actual service shall leave a family not of ability to maintain themselves in his absence, the Justices of the Peace of the City or County, and the Overseers of the Poor of the City, Township, or District, respectively, shall immediately make provision for the maintenance of such family.

Thirty-Sixth. When any of the Associators shall be so called into actual service, the Commissioners of the respective Counties, or any one of them, shall immediately provide such Carriages as may be necessary for their accommodation, at the expense of the publick.

Thirty-Seventh. As there may happen occasions wherein it may be necessary to call out a part of the Associators to actual, though temporary service, and not the whole body, and it would be inconvenient and burdensome, if, upon every alarm, where the assistance of part only may be wanted, the whole should come together, or any much greater number than the occasion required, it is recommended, that orders may issue from the Committee of Safety, to the Colonels, either to march their whole Battalions, or to send to an appointed rendezvous one or more Companies, as they may be wanted, according to the respective rank of the Companies, each Company serving on such calls in its turn, and for such proportion of time as shall make the burden nearly equal; and if the Associators who are called forth are not all provided with good Arms, it is recommended to those who have such, and are not called out, to lend the same for that occasion, at the risk of the publick.

Thirty-Eighth. The Field-Officers of every Battalion shall appoint some person in each Company of their respective Battalions in whom they can confide, and the Officers in every Troop of Horse and Company of Artillery shall, in like manner, choose some person in their Troop or Company, respectively, whose names shall be returned by the said Officers, respectively, to the County Treasurers for the Provincial taxes in their several Counties; which persons so appointed shall, from time to time, collect all fines incurred by the Associators in their Companies for non-attendance, and shall severally pay the same to the said County Treasurers, respectively, first deducting a commission of five per centum for their trouble, which said County Treasurers, respectively, shall pay the same to Michael Hillegas, Esq., after deducting a commission of one per centum for their trouble; and the said Michael Hillegas having exchanged the said money, in which such fines shall be so paid, into bills of credit of this Province, emitted by this or the late House of Assembly, after deducting five Shillings for every hundred Pounds for his trouble, shall deliver the same into the hands of the Committees of Assembly appointed to audit and settle the publick accounts, to be by them burnt, sunk, and destroyed, in abatement of the taxes. It is directed that the said Collectors shall account with the officers who severally appointed them, as often as such officers shall require them so to do; and the said officers shall, in due time, transmit the accounts of the said Collectors to the respective County Treasurers for the Provincial taxes.

Lastly. This House having drawn up the following Articles of Agreement for all the Associators in the Province, they do earnestly recommend the same to be adopted, signed, and agreed to by all the said Associators, in order that one general system may prevail in Pennsylvania.

Articles of Association in PENNSYLVANIA.

We, the Officers and Soldiers engaged in the present Association for the defence of American liberty, being fully sensible that the strength and security of any body of men acting together consists in just regularity, due subordination, and exact obedience to command, without which no individual can have that confidence in the support of those about him that is so necessary to give firmness and resolution to the whole, do voluntarily and freely, after consideration of the following articles, adopt the same as the rules and regulations by which we agree and resolve to be governed in all our military concerns and operations, until the same, or any of them, shall be changed or dissolved by the Assembly of this Province, or a happy reconciliation shall take place between Great Britain and the Colonies.

First. If any Officer make use of any profane oath or execration, when on duty, he shall forfeit and pay for each and every such offence the sum of five Shillings; and if a Non-Commissioned Officer or Soldier be thus guilty of cursing or swearing, he shall forfeit and pay for each and every such offence the sum of one Shilling.

Second. Any Officer or Soldier who shall refuse to obey the lawful orders of his superior Officer, may be suspended from doing duty on that day, and shall, upon being convicted thereof before a Regimental Court of Associators, make such concessions as said Court shall direct.

Third. Any Officer or Soldier who shall begin, excite, cause, join in, or promote any disturbance in the Battalion, Troop, or Company to which he belongs, or in any other Battalion, Troop, or Company, shall be fined or censured, according to the nature of the offence, by the judgment of a General or Regimental Court of Associators.

Fourth. Any Officer or Soldier who shall strike his superior Officer, or draw, or offer to draw, or shall lift up any weapon, or offer any violence against him, being in the execution of his office, shall, upon a conviction before a General or Regimental Court of Associators, be dismissed, and shall be deemed to be thereby disgraced as unworthy the company of freemen.

Fifth. Any Commanding or other Officer who shall strike any Associator, when on duty, shall, upon conviction before a General Court of Associators, suffer such punishment as the said Court shall inflict.

Sixth. Any Officer or Soldier who shall make use of insolent, provoking, or indecent language, while on duty, shall suffer such censure or fine as shall be inflicted by a General or Regimental Court of Associators, according to the nature of the offence.

Seventh. If any Officer or Soldier shall think himself injured by his Colonel or the Commanding Officer of the Battalion, and shall, upon due application made to him, be refused redress, he may complain to the General or Commander-in-Chief of the Pennsylvania Associators, or to the Colonel of any other Battalion, who shall summon a General Court of Associators, that justice may be done.

Eighth. If any inferior Officer or Soldier shall think himself injured by his Captain, or other superior Officer in the Battalion, Troop, or Company to which he belongs, he may complain to the Commanding Officer of the Battalion, who shall summon a Regimental Court of Associators, for the doing justice, according to the nature of the case.

Ninth. No Officer, Non-Commissioned Officer, or Soldier, shall fail of repairing, with his arms and accoutrements, on any of the days appointed by the Assembly for exercising, to the place of parade or other rendezvous appointed by the Commanding Officer, if not prevented by sickness or some other evident necessity, or shall go from the place of parade or rendezvous, without leave from the Commanding Officer, before he shall be regularly dismissed, on penalty of two Shillings and six Pence.

Tenth. Any Officer or Soldier found drunk, when under arms, shall be suspended from doing duty in the Battalion, Company, or Troop, on that day, and be fined or censured, at the discretion of a General or Regimental Court of Associators.

Eleventh. Whatever Sentinel shall be found sleeping or drunk on his post, or shall leave it before he is regularly relieved, shall suffer such penalty or disgrace as shall be ordered by a Regimental Court of Associators.

Twelfth. Whatever Commissioned Officer shall be convicted, before a General Court of Associators, of behaving in a scandalous or infamous manner, unbecoming the character of an Officer and a Gentleman, shall be dismissed from the Association with disgrace.

Thirteenth. Every Non-Commissioned Officer or Soldier who shall be convicted at a Regimental Court of Associators of having sold, carelessly lost, wilfully spoiled or wasted, or of having offered for sale any Ammunition, Arms, or Accoutrements, belonging to this Province, shall be dismissed his Battalion, Troop, or Company, as an unworthy member, and be prosecuted as the law directs.

Fourteenth. All disorders and neglects which Officers or Soldiers may be guilty of, to the prejudice of the good