Treasurers, to be by them delivered to the same person and applied to the same use as the other moneys directed to be levied by the Resolves of this House.

Third. The Commissioners of the respective Counties, or any two of them, are hereby required and enjoined to appoint some proper person to make out the list aforesaid, in the place of the Assessor so refusing or neglecting; which person, so appointed, shall make out and return such list to the Commissioners, on or before the first day of May next ensuing.

Fourth. Every Assessor, or person appointed in his place as aforesaid, shall, before he begins to make out the lists aforesaid, take an oath or affirmation, which any magistrate of the County is hereby required and enjoined to administer, without fee or reward: “That he will go to the place or places of abode of all and every person and persons residing within his Township, Borough, Ward, or District, and make a faithful and diligent inquiry of, and endeavour, by all other lawful ways and means in his power, to procure a true and exact account and list of the names and surnames of all male white persons capable of bearing arms, who are between the ages of sixteen and fifty years, residing within his Township, Borough, Ward, or District, and will make a return of such account or list (if an Assessor) to the Commissioners of the County, respectively, in which he resides, on or before the 25th day of March next ensuing, or (if a person appointed in the place of an Assessor) on or before the first day of May next ensuing.”

Fifth. Every Assessor, or other person appointed and acting in the place of an Assessor, as aforesaid, shall receive, for his trouble in making out and returning such lists, the sum of four Shillings for every day he shall be employed in that service.

Sixth. If any dispute shall arise concerning the age of any Non-Associator, the same shall be determined before the Commissioners of the County, or any two of them, by oath or affirmation of the person whose age is in question, which oath or affirmation the said Commissioners, or any of them, are hereby required to administer, or by any other proper evidence.

Seventh. The Captains of every Company are required and enjoined, on or before the fifteenth day of March next ensuing, to deliver, under his hand, to the Colonel of the Battalion to which he belongs, a copy of the Articles of Association, signed by the Associators of his Company, therein mentioning the County, and the Township, Borough, Ward, or District, in which each of the said Associators resides, which the Colonel shall carefully keep, and therefrom shall immediately make out, and return on or before the twenty-fifth day of the same month, a fair duplicate, to the Commissioners, aforesaid, of the respective Counties in which the said Associators respectively reside.

Eighth. The said Commissioners, or any two of them, are required, on or before the first day of June next ensuing, to meet together, and cause their clerks to make out fair lists of the names and surnames of all persons mentioned in the duplicates returned to them as aforesaid, with their places of abode, who appear, by the duplicates returned by the Colonels, not to have signed the Articles of Association; and thereupon the said Commissioners are required to charge every such person, not associating, over and above the rates and assessments set upon him by virtue of the laws of this Province, the sum of two Pounds, ten Shillings, on the lists made out by their order, as aforesaid.

Ninth. If any person charged by the Commissioners as a Non-Associator shall, at the day of appeal, produce to the Commissioners a certificate from the commanding officer of any Battalion, Troop of Horse, or Company of Artillery, that he has become an Associator in such Battalion, Troop, or Company, the Commissioners, or any two of them, shall make an allowance in favour of such person, of two Shillings and six Pence for each of the days of exercise appointed by this House, after such person became an Associator, on which he attended his Battalion, Troop, or Company, or has been fined for non-attendance.

Tenth. If any person charged by the Commissioners as a Non-Associator shall die before the day of appeal, or if, before that day, an accommodation shall be made between Great Britain and the Colonies on this Continent, and, in consequence thereof, the Military Association in this Province shall be dissolved; in either of those cases the Commissioners, or any two of them, shall make an abatement in the assessment charged as aforesaid, of two Shillings and six Pence for each of the days of exercise aforesaid, after the death of such Non-Associator, or the dissolution of the Association.

Eleventh. If any Non-Associator, or the parent, guardian, master, or mistress of any Non-Associator between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years, or any other Non-Associator, shall think him or herself aggrieved by the assessment aforesaid, he or she may appeal to the Commissioners of the County wherein he or she resides, who, or any two of them, shall meet together on the 10th day of October next ensuing, and so, from day to day, as long as may be necessary, and at such place or places as the Commissioners, or any two of them, shall appoint; of which days and places of meeting they shall cause the Collectors to give due notice to the inhabitants, and then and there the said Commissioners, or any two of them, shall hear such appeals as may be made to them, and may discharge such assessment, or lower the same, as to them, on consideration of all circumstances, shall appear just and equitable.

Twelfth. The said Commissioners of the respective Counties, or any two of them, within ten days after hearing and determining the appeals made to them, shall rectify and adjust the lists returned to them as aforesaid, and the assessments thereon, and deliver to the Treasurers of the respective Counties a true account of the sums total which every Collector shall be charged with in pursuance of these resolves, and shall cause their clerks to make out and deliver fair duplicates thereof to the respective Collectors of the Townships, Boroughs, Wards, and Districts, within their respective Counties, who shall collect the said sums, keeping exact and separate accounts of the sums so charged on Non-Associators, and shall pay the same into the hands of the respective County Treasurers, who shall pay the same into the hands of Michael Hillegas, Esq., to be applied to such purposes as this or any future House of Assembly shall judge most likely to promote the publick welfare; and all persons shall be liable to the payment of the said sums in the same manner, and the Collectors shall have the same powers, and shall proceed in collecting and levying the said sums, and shall be accountable in the same manner as is directed by the Act intituled “An Act for raising of County Rates and Levies.”

Thirteenth. The allowances to the Collectors of such assessments, and to the Treasurers, respectively, shall be the same with those appointed and directed in the collection of fines from Associators for non-attendance.

Fourteenth. The Treasurers of the respective Counties, before they enter on the duties hereby required of them, shall give the like security for the faithful discharge of their office to the Commissioners of their several Counties, that they are now obliged by the laws of this Province to give for the due payment of Provincial taxes.

Fifteenth. All and every person and persons who are required or enjoined by these resolutions, or any of them, to discharge or perform any of the offices or duties herein before mentioned, are hereby further earnestly and solemnly required and enjoined, with all diligence and fidelity, strenuously to exert themselves in discharging and performing such offices and duties, and every part thereof, as they regard the freedom, security, and happiness of their Country.

Resolved, That the Committee of Safety procure a sufficient number of the foregoing “Rules and Regulations for the better government of the Military Association in Pennsylvania,” “The Articles of said Association,” and “The Resolutions directing the mode of levying Taxes on Non-Associators in Pennsylvania,” to be immediately printed in the English and German languages, and transmitted to the Commanding Officers of several Battalions, and to the Commissioners of the several Counties in this Province.

The House adjourned to Monday, the 12th of February next, at four o’clock, P. M.