Section XV Commander to bring at Muster Certificate of Absentees.

Signing false Certificates; Punishment.

And it is hereby enacted and declared That the Co[m]manding Officer of every Troop or Company att the time of Muster shall bring in a Certificate signed of the Names of such persons as are sick or have leave to be absent upon Furlows and of such persons as are dead and deserted since the last Muster with the X1day of their deaths or desertions And if such Certificate shall prove false upon conviction thereof before a Court Martial the Officer signeing such Certificate shall suffer such penalties and in such manner as is declared and inflicted by this Act upon those that make false Musters