Section II Soldiers to be listed before a Justice of Peace, &c.

Military Officer offending; ; Penalty.; Justice of Peace to give a Certificate of listing to Military Officer and Duplicate to Clerk of the Peace, gratis.

And to the end that noe Man may bee forced into forreigne service or compelled without his free consent to bee listed in any Troop or Company of their Majesties Land Forces Bee it enacted by the authority aforesaid That noe person that shall bee listed for the Land Service att any time after the First day of March One thousand six hundred ninety three shall bee esteemed a listed Soldier as aforesaid or bee subject to any of the pains and penalties of this Act or any other penaltie for his behaviour as a Soldier that shall not have been brought before a Justice of the Peace not being an Officer in the Army or Chief Magistrate of some City or Towne Corporate or High Constable or Petty Constable in the Hundred or Division where the person shall bee listed and before such Justice Magistrate or High Constable or Petty Constable declare his free consent to bee listed or mustred as a Soldier before hee shall bee listed or mustred or inserted in any muster roll of a Regiment Troop or Company as aforesaid And every Military Officer that shall offend herein shall incurr the like penalty and forfeiture as is by the said continued Act to bee inflicted upon any Officer for makeing a false and untrue muster and the Forfeiture shall bee recovered in the same manner as forfeitures by the said Act. Provided always That the Justice of Peace Magistrate or High Constable or Petty Constable before whom such Soldier shall bee listed shall give the Officer gratis a Certificate thereof under his hand which shall bee by such Officer under whom hee shall bee listed produced to the Muster Master att the next muster to bee taken of such Troop or Company and bee by him registred as part of the muster roll for the same And such Justice of Peace Magistrate or High Constable X1or Petty Constable shall and is hereby required to deliver a duplicate of such his Certificate to the Clerk of the Peace att the next Quarter Sessions of the Peace to bee held for the place to bee there by him recorded without any fee or reward for soe doeing.