STATE 
with which he is invested by the 
4th article of the at of parliament 
mentioned above. 
26. ‘the corps are to serve dur- 
_ ing the continuance of the war, 
and a year after the cessation of 
hostilities, unless his majesty should 
think proper to di:pznse sooner 
with the service to which they are 
bound by the present capitulation. 
27. The art'cles of dress and 
arms of the men lost on service 
shall be 1e-placed at the expence 
of goverament; as well as the 
men killed in a€tion, or who may 
die of their wounds, or of disorders, 
in the hospitals, or at the -regi- 
ment ; which shall he ascertained 
by the English commissary, by a 
-certificate of their deaths, signed 
‘by himself, and the staff of the re- 
giment. But the colonels shall be 
bound to replace such men as are 
lost through desertion, as well as 
the effeéts which they may carry 
with them. 
28. In unforeseen cases, and in 
whatever may not be particularly 
specified by the present regula- 
tions, the corps on British pay shall 
conform to the orders or regula. 
tions of his Britannic majesty re- 
specting his troops, and shall be 
upon the same footing with them, 
Approved, Le Duc pr Harcourt, 
GRENVILLE, 
W, WinpuaM. 
petarihtaitniepnenttartinagetaccae 
Proclamatiin respefing Dutch Bills 
of Exchange, February 6th, 1795. 
WHEREAS it has been repre- 
sented to his majesty, at this board, 
that, in consequence of the pro. 
gress of the French arms in ‘the 
United Provinces, the payment of 
bills of exchange, drawn or nego- 
PAP E'R S. 
tiated in the said provinces, may 
be deemed unlawful, -by virtue of 
the provisions contained in an a&, 
passed in the last-session df parlia- 
ment, intituled, ‘* An ad for pre- 
venting money or effects, in the 
hands of his majesty’s subjeQs, be- 
longing to or disposable by persons 
resident in France, being applied 
to ghe use of the persons exercising 
the powers of government in 
France, and for preserving the 
property thereof for the benefit of 
the individual owners thereof;’* 
and in an att passed in thesame ses. 
sion, intituled, ** An act for’more 
effeftually preserving money or 
effects, in the hands of his majesty’s 
subjects, belonging to or disposable 
by persons resident in France, for 
the benefit of the individual own. 
ers thereof,’’ unless his majesty 
shall license the payment of such 
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‘bills, in pursuance of the powers 
given by the said several ats ; his 
majesty, taking the same into his 
royal consideration, is pleased, by 
and with the advice of his privy 
council, to order, and it is hereby 
ordered, that it shall be lawful for 
any person, residing or being in 
Great Britain, to pay any bill, 
drawn or indorsed in any part of 
the said United Provinces, and sent 
from the said provinces on or be- 
fore the 16th day of January last ; 
provided such bill shall have been 
made payable at no greater distance 
of time than three months from 
the date thereof, or three months 
from sight thereof; provided also, 
that all and every person and per- 
sons, who shall take the benefit of 
‘such licence hereby granted, shall 
so tuke the same, upon condition, 
‘that in case of any proceedings, 
criminal or civil, under the pro. 
visions of the said act of parlia- 
M 4 ment, 
