Section XIV Paymaster, &c. of Regiment detaining Pay or Allowances;

Officer refusing to pay Soldier, &c. at the Rates herein mentioned; Penalty £100 and Disability.; Informer, if a Soldier, discharged.

And be it further enacted That if any Paymaster Agent or Clerk of any Regiment Troop or Company shall willfully detain or withhold by the Space of One Month the Pay of any Officer or Soldier (Clothes and all other just Allowances being deducted) after such Pay shall be by him or them recieved or if any Officers having received their Soldiers pay shall refuse to pay each respective common Soldier their respective Pay when it shall become due at the Rate of Seventeen Shillings and Sixpence a Week for each Corporal of Light Horse Fourteen Shillings a Week for each Trumpeter and private Trooper Eight Shillings and Two Pence a Week for each Dragoon Seven Shillings a Week to each Sergeant Five Shillings a Week to each Corporal and Drummer and Four Shillings a Week to each Private Soldier of His Majesties Two Regiments of Foot Guards and Six Shillings a Week to each Sergeant Four Shillings and Six Pence a Week to each Corporal and Drummer and Three Shillings a Week for each Foot Soldier of the Army And also over and above the said Three Shillings by the Week at the End of every Two Months shall account for Six Pence by the Week to each Foot Soldier of the said Army the said Six Pence per Week being the Remainder of the Subsistence of each Foot Soldier that upon Proof thereof before a Court Martial as aforesaid every such Paymaster Agent Clerk and Officer so offending shall be discharged from his Imployment and shall forfeit to the Informer upon Conviction before the said Court Martial One hundred Pounds to be raised as aforesaid and shall be thereby utterly disabled to have or hold any Civil or Military Office or Imployment within this Kingdom or in His Majesties 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