# Mutiny Act 1701, Section IX: Giving false Certificate for Absence of Soldiers.


Penalty £50, cashiered, and Disability.
And for preventing of Fraud and Deceit in mustering of Soldiers Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person shall make or give or procure to be made or given any false or untrue Certificate whereby to excuse any Soldiers for their Absence from any Muster or other Service which they ought to attend or perform upon a Pretence of Sicknesse or other Cause that then every such Person so making giving or procuring such Certificate shall forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of Fifty Pounds and shall be forthwith cashired and displaced from such his Office and shall be thereby utterly disabled to have or hold any Military Office or Imployment within this Kingdom or in His Majesties Service

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/13-14/2/section/IX (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/mutiny-act-1701/section-IX
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