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pences of this long march, shall 

 cause to be paid, immediately after 

 the signature of the treaty, to the 

 agent of his most serene highness at 

 London, the amonntof three months* 

 pay, on the footing of the Braban- 

 tine pay ; and as to the period of 

 the return of the said troop* into the 

 country of Brunswick, it is agreed 

 lliathis Britannic majesty shall cause 

 this return to be notified three 

 months beforehand ; and with re- 

 gard to the expences of the route, 

 two months of Brabaniine pay is to 

 be allowed. 



Art. 4. His Britannic majesty 

 will cause to be paid, under the 

 head of levy money, for each foot 

 soldier, foot chasseur, artillery man, 

 &c. &c. thirty banco crowns, the 

 crown computed at fifty-three pence 

 of Holland, or at four shillings and 

 nine pence three farthings English 

 money ; and for each horseman 

 duly armed and mounted, eighty 

 banco crowns of the same value, 

 which makes the sum of seventy- 

 three thousand three hundred and 

 ninety banco crowns. This sum 

 shall be paid immediately after the 

 signature of the present treaty. 



Art. 5. As to what relates to the 

 pay and allowances, both ordinary 

 and extraordinary, of the said troops, 

 during the time that they shall be in 

 the pay of Great Britain, it is agreed 

 that this pay, and all the emolu- 

 ments, shall commence from the 

 first of January next, and shall con- 

 tinue until the day whereon the 

 troops shall return into their respec- 

 tive garrisons. His Britannic ma- 

 jesty will moreover cause to be paid 

 unto them the pay and emoluments 

 for the remainder of the month in 

 which these troops shall have return- 



l into their sjarrisons. 



It is moreover agreed, that if 

 these troops shall happen to serve 

 in the iempire, they shall enjoy the 

 same pay and the same advantages 

 which his majesty grants to his 

 German troops, according to the 

 etTective state in which the said 

 corps shall be delivered, which shall 

 be verified by a statement, signed 

 by the respective ministers of the 

 high contracting parties, which shall 

 have the same force as if it were in- 

 serted, word for word, in the pre- 

 sent treaty. So long as these troops 

 shall be employed in the Low Coun- 

 tries, they shall be treated, with re- 

 spect to pay and emoluments, both 

 ordinary and extraordinary, on the 

 footing of the Brabantine pay, it 

 being well ur:derstood, that in the 

 one and in the other case, that is 

 to say, in that of the German, as 

 well as in that of the Brabantine 

 pay, the allowances shall not be , 

 below v/hat has been granted in 

 former wars to the Hessian troops : 

 and if the nature of the war shall 

 require that these troops should 

 serve in other countries on the con- 

 tinent of Europe than in countries 

 above-mentioned, they then shall 

 be placed on the same footing in 

 every respect as the most favoured 

 of his majesty's auxUiary troops. 

 If it should happen that they should 

 be eirployed in Great Britain or 

 Ireland, they shall be placed on the 

 same footing in every respect as the 

 British national troops. All these 

 allowances for the said troops shall 

 be paid into the military chest of his 

 most serene highness, without any 

 abatement whatever. 



Art. 6. Every object relating to 

 the equipment of the officers having 

 considerably increased in price dur- 

 ing this war, his Britannic majesty 



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