mittee of safety, 27. Brigade-
major, 27. Winter quarters,
how provided, 27. Militia of-
ficers, how nominated and
commissioned, 27. Who liable
to militia duty, 27. How en-
rolled, 28. Who exempted,
28. Fine on colonel for neglect,
28. Arms, &c. to be furnished
by militia, 28. Exceptions, 28.
Company, and general mus-
ters, 29. Misbehaviour, how
punishable, 29. Delinquents,
how reported, 29. Courts mar-
tial, when and how convened,
30. Their powers, 30. Clerk,
30. Fines for delinquencies,
30. How excused,31. Drums,
files, &c. 31. List of fines, 31.
Officers, how armed, 31. Pri-
vates, when and how, 31.
Arms exempted from execu-
tions, &c. and persons from ar-
rests, 31. Exempts not to ap-
pear at musters, 31. Fines on
infants and servants how paid,
32. Collector of fines, duties
and penalties, 32. Oath of mi-
litia officers, 32. Of court-mar-
tial, 32. Penalty for neglect,
33. Fines, how appropriated,
33. For not attending court-
martial, 33. Williamsburg &
Norfolk excepted, 33. Patrol-
lers, 33. Quakers and Meno-
ninsts exempted, 34. Pay, &c.
of militia, called out, 34. Col-
lectors of fines, how appoint-
ed, 34. Remedy against, 34.
When forces, on western fron-
tiers may be disbanded, 35.
Articles of war, 35. Oath of
officers, 36. Oath altered, 87.
Provision for paying regulars
and minute-men,64. Two for-
mer regiments of regulars
augmented, 75. Six addition-
al regiments to be raised, 76.
Number of men, officers and
staff, 76. German regiment,
where raised, 76. Another re-
giment for Accomack & Nor-
thampton, 76. Number, offi-
cers and staff, 76, 77. Gene-
rals, and staff, 77. Officers,
how appointed, 77. Power of
committees, 77, 78. Officers
may recruit any where, 78.
Not recruiting in time inay be
susperseded by others, 78.
County and district commit-
tees to appoint rendezvous,
provide for reviewing recruits,
and grant certificates, in order
to obtain commissions, 79.
Regimental staff, how appoint-
ed, 79. District committee,
how appointed, 79. Commit-
tee of safety to allot compa-
nies to regiments, and station
the troops, 80. How many
miles a day's march, 80. Ca-
dets, provision for,Ɛ0. Vacan-
cies in officers and privates,
how supplied, 81. Term of
enlistment, and mode of dis-
charge, 81. Pay of officers &
soldiers when to commence,
81. Servants, apprentices and
others, how enlisted, 81. Size
of men, 81. Arms and accou-
trements, how furnished, 81.
Blankets, rifles, tomahawks,
hire for arms &c. furnished by
soldiers, 82. Clothing how
furnished, 82. Provision as to
minute-men joining the army,
82. Additional rifle companies,
82. In what counties to be
raised, 82. Medicine chests &
surgeons' instruments,82. Pay
of officers, soldiers and staff,
82, 83. Artillery company to
be raised, 83. Officers, bom-
bardiers, gunners, matrosses,
83. Their pay, 83. Armed
vessels to be provided by com-
mittee of safety, 83. Pay of
commodore, and other officers
and sailors, 83. When and on
what terms land forces may
act in concert with navy, 83.
Secretary to colonels when al-
lowed, 84. Tents, 84. Arms,
accoutrements, and camp equi-
page, how provided, 84. Pay-
masters to be appointed by
committee of safety,84. Their
salary, 84. To act as muster-
masters, 84. How paid, 84.
Removable by committee of
safety,85. Army, in all things,
to be nuder the controul of
committee of safety, 85. May
be marched to different parts
of United Colonies, 85. For-
ces, where to be stationed, 85.
Regiments assigned to differ-
ent districts, 85. May be cal-
led to other parts to repel in-
vasions, 86. Officers commis-
sioned by congress to super-
sede those by committee of
safety, 86. Their pay the same
as settled by congress, 86.
Former ordinance, requiring
battalion duty by minute-men
repealed, 86. Officers of mi-
nute-men not completing their
quotas, to be suspended by
county committees, 85. Oil-
cers or privates of minute-men
joining the regulars, how their
places supplied. 87. Hire of
arms furnished by minute-men
87. Oath of officers and sol-
diers altered,87. District com-
mittees, when and how form-
ed, 88. Captains and subal-
terns of minute-men, to be ap-
pointed by county committees,
S8. Field officers, by district
committees, 88. Officers of
minute-men may be commis-
sioned before a return of the
completion of the battalions,
88. When committee of safety
may appoint field officer to
command minute companies,
89. Dissenting ministers not
exempted from militia duty,
unless licensed, 89. Overseers,
heretofore exempted, to fur-
nish arms, and act as patrol-
lers, 89. Drafts of militia,how
made, 89. Penalty for failing
to attend, or find a substitute,
90. Officers to command drafts
how appointed,90. Volunteers
may be accepted in lieu of mi-
litia, 90. So much of former
ordinance as exempts from
musters, in the month of Fe-
bruary repealed, 90. Pay of
commanding officers of militia
when called into service, 90.
Encouragement to enlist in
regular service, 91. Bounties,
91. Exemption from personal
taxes, 91. Pensions to regu-
lars, minute-men, & regulars,
91. Collectors of fines, how
appointed, 91. Remedy by
distress, 91. Motion against
collector for failing to pay,
91. Fines, how appropriated,
91. Penalty for barbouring
deserters, 91. General appro-
priation for pay of army, if
congress should not take the
troops into their pay, 92.
Continuance of officers in ar-
my and their mode of resigna-
tion declared, 95, 96. The
9th regiment of regulars aug-
mented, 135. Forces to be
stationed on the western fron-
tiers, 136. Six troops of horse
to be raised, 137. All over-
seers, Quakers and Menonists,
and all millers in Accomack
and Northampton to be enrol-
led in the militia, 139. But
Quakers and Menonists not
obliged to attend musters, 139.
Power of commanding officer
of county to call out militia,
on invasion or insurrection,
139. His power to excuse,
140. Minute companies not
complete to return to main
body of inilitia, 140. Number
of private musters reduced,
140. Minute companies in
Williamsburg, how disposed
ef, 140. Courts martial in
Williamsburg, instead of court
of Hustings, to punish delin-
quents, 140. Drafts in Acco-
mack and Northampton how
made, 141. Certain defects in
ordinance for raising six troops
of cavalry supplied, 141. Ad-
ditional forces, on continental
establishment, to be raised for
the war, 179. Bounty and
clothing, 179. Land bounty,
179. Forces already in con-
tinental service, estimated as
part of the 15 battalions to be
raised in Virginia, 179. Pow-
ers of executive to aid recruit-
ing service, 180. Officers, in
what proportions, and how ap-
pointed in the several counties,
180-182. Quota of men to
be recruited by each officer,
182. Effect of failure, 182.
Rendezvous, how appointed,
182. Review and certificate
thereof, 182. Commissions
from congress, 183. Grade,
how settled, 183. Field ofli-
cers and staff how appointed,
183. Organization of recruits,
183. Fortifications to be erec-
ted, 192. Engineer appointed,
192. His rank and pay, 192.
Three battalions to be raised
to garrison the fortifications,
192. Officers and staff, 192.
Officers, how appointed, 193.
Continental officers to take
precedence of state, 193. Quo-
ta to be recruited by respective
officers, 193. Recruiting ex-
penses, 193. Officers tailing
to recruit may be superseded,
193. Eflect thereof, 194. Rank
of officers, how settled, 194.
Recruits, how reviewed, 194.
Pay &c. the same as continen-
tal troops, 194. Not to be
marched out of this country,
194. Term of enlistment, 194.
Bounty and clothing, 194.
Hospital provided, 194. Phy-
sician and director general,
195. Pensions, 195. Exchange
of the 5 rifle companies at
New York, with the continent,
195. Marines may be taken
for garrison duty, 195. If offi-
cers supernumerary, those set
aside who were latest in com-
pleting their companies, 195.
Magazine of provisions to be
provided, 196. Two frigates
and four gallies to be built,
196. Virginia fleet, how man-
ned, 196. Seamen classed,
196. Bounty, 197. Trustees
appointed to establish a man-
ufactory of sail duck, 17.
Appropriation for, 197. Trus-
tees to report to general as-
sembly, 197. Artillery com-
pany
to be formed in Alexan-
dria, 198. Minute companies
totally dissolved, 198. Minute
men considered as militia,198.
So much of ordinance as fixes
the stations of troops repealed,
210. Term of enlistment of
troops altered from during the
war, to three years, 213. The
same pay and bounty, except
in land, 214. Any two militia
procuring a recruit, for three
years or the war, exempted
from drafts or muster, 275.
Apprentices and servants may
be recruited, 275. Soldiers,
how far free from arrests,276.
Summary mode of discharge,
276. Restrictions, in issuing
writs against soldiers, 276.
Drafts resorted to, in order to
complete the six additional
regiments,276. Mode of draft-
ing, 276, 277. Fines for ne-
glect, 278. Battalion of artil-
lery for garrison duty, to be
raised, 278. Officers, & staff,
278, 279. Pay, 279. Recruit-
ing expenses allowed, 279.
Provision for wives, children,
and aged parents, of poor sol
diers, while absent, 279. Sol-
diers supplied out of public
stores, at prime cost, 279.
Warwick and Elizabeth City,
what proportion of men to
raise,280. State artillery when
marched out, what pay entitled
to, 280. No negro to be enlis-
ted without certificate of free-
dom, 280. Deserters, how ap-
prehended and dealt with,289.
Penalty for harbouring, 290.
Reward for apprehending,
290. Organization of regi-
ments altered, to assimilate
them to continental establish-
ment, 337. Colonel George
Gibson's battalion of state
troops, continued in continen-
tal service, instead of 9th reg-
iment captured at German-
town, 337. Additional bounty
to men who re-enlist, 338.
State troops transferred to
continental establishment,338.
Entitled to same
pay and
emoluments, as those in con-
tinental service,338, Drafts of
single men, to complete the
regiments, in what propor-
tions, in the several counties,
339. Bounty to drafts, 340.
Mode of drafting,341. Single
men only, 341. Lots distin-
guished by "service"or"clear"
342. Drafts, how restrained
for service, 342. Volunteers
encouraged, in order to avoid
draft, 342. Bounty, pay, and
emoluments of drafts, who en-
list for three years or the war,
343. Provision for supplying
officers and soldiers with ne-
cessaries at moderate prices;
343. Every county entitled to
a deduction in the draft, for
every deserter from the con-
tinental army, apprehended,
344. So, every single man
drafted, to be discharged, on
apprehending and delivering
a deserter, 344. To conceal a
deserter, subjects offender to
his term of service, if capable
of military duty; if not, to a
pecuniary fine, 344. Provi-
sion for widows whose hus-
bands have died or been slain
in the service, 344,345. Qua-
kers and Menonists drafted,
exempted from personal ser-
vice; but substitutes to be
pro-
vided by equitable assessment
in the whole society 345. En-
couragement to volunteers to
join the army under General
Washington 345.
Term of
service 346. Organization
346. General and field officers
and staff how appointed 346.
Form of enlistment of volun-
teers 346. Volunteers not ex-
empted from drafts to com-
plete Virginia regiments, on
continental establishment 347.
Captains, &e. elected by sol-
diers, but commissioned by
governor 347. How organ-
ized 347. Baptists and Me-
thodists privileged to serve un-
der officers of their own reli-
gion 348. Volunteers not to
exceed ten regiments 348.
Clothing for troops provided
by seizure of goods 375. Pow-
er to break locks, &c. 376.
Goods how appraised 376.
How paid for 376.
charged to United States 376.
How made up into clothing
376. Power to impress work-
men 376. Commissioners to
transmit accounts to treasurer
377. Salt may be seized for
the use of the army in the same
manner as clothing 381. Act
to enable public contractors
to procure a supply of provi-
sions for the army 385. Em-
bargo on exportation of pork,
beef and bacon 385. How en-
forced 386. Provisions pur-
chased by any person, more
than sufficient for the con-
sumption of his family, may
be seized for the use of the ar-
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drafts to recruit the Virginia
regiments on continental es-
tablishment, in the counties
beyond the Blue Ridge en-
larged 433. 2000 volunteers
to be raised, to join the grand
army 445.
Encouragement
445. Bounty and clothing
445. Exemptions 445. Spirits
446. Goods at the prices in
1774, 446. Officers how ap-
pointed 446. Proportion to
several counties 446. Number
of volunteers to each officer
447. Vacancies how supplied
447. When enlistments to
cease 447. Returns 447. Re-
cruiting expenses 447. Volun-
teers organized 448. Staff 448.
Form of enlistment 448. Pay
and rations 448. Tents, arms,
&c. 448. Wives and families
provided for 449. Appropria-
tion for expenses incurred 449.
Regiment of cavalry to be
raised to join the continental
army 449. Organization 450.
Officers how appointed 450.
Pay 450. Horses, &c. how
furnished 450. Appropriation
for expenses incurred 450.
Privileges of officers and troo-
pers 451. When to march
451. Battalion of infantry to
be raised for garrison duty
452. Number, officers, and
staff 452. Bounty, pay, and
rations 452. Term of service
452. Recruiting expenses
452. Who may not be enlist-
ed 452. Appropriation 452,
An order to march out of the
state equal to a discharge 453.
State artillery, pay, rations,
&c. 453. Privileges 453. En-
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