Section XIV Paymaster, &c. withholding Pay;
Penalty.; Informer, if a Soldier, may be discharged.
And bee it further Enacted That if any Paymaster Agent or Clerke of any Regiment Troope or Company shall wilfully detaine or withhold by the space of One Month the Pay of any Officer or Soldier (Cloathes and all other just Allowances being deducted) after such Pay shall be by him or them recieved or if any Officer haveing received their Souldiers Pay shall refuse to pay each respective Co[m]mon Soldier their respective Pay when it shall become due That upon proofe thereof before a Court Martiall as aforesaid every such Paymaster Agent Clerke and Officer soe offending shall be Discharged from his imployment and shall forfeit to the Informer upon Conviction before the said Court Martiall One hundred pounds to be raised as aforesaid X1and shall be thereby utterly disabled to have or hold any Civill or Military Office or Imployment within this Kingdome or in Their Majestyes Service And the Informer if a Soldier if he demand it shall be and is hereby Discharged of any further Service Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding
Annotations
Editorial notes
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annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.