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and according to the effeétive state 
as shallj then be verified.’ All the 
camp necessaries, as likewise all 
the horses, waggons, draft-horses, 
valets de bat, and waggoners, who 
may be necessary for the troops,as 
well for transporting the equipages, 
provisions, ammunition, utensils, 
sick, and other objeéts of every 
kind, as for the field+pieces, with 
theirimplements, and artillery men, 
shall be furnished by his Britannic 
majesty wherever they may be 
wanted. 
4, Besides the levy-money stipu- 
lated in the preceding article, his 
Britannic majesty shall cause to be 
paid to every officer, as also to every 
one employed, not a fighting man 
of equal rank, the sum of three 
months pay according to his rank, 
and upon the same footing as his 
national troops, in order to facili- 
tate the expence of his private 
equipment, which payment shall 
be made immediately after the sig- 
nature of the present treaty. 
5. His majesty the king of Great 
Britain engages himself, in like 
manner, to pay tothe serene Land- 
grave an annual subsidy during the 
six years this treaty is to continue. 
‘This subsidy shali commence from 
the day of the signature, and it 
shall be paid at the rate of eighty 
thousand crowns baneo per annum. 
The payment of this subsidy shall 
be made regularly, without abate- 
ment, every quarter, to the agent 
of his highness in London. 
«4. These troops shall remain in 
the service and at the disposition of 
his Britannic majesty during six 
years, and his majesty shall allow 
them during this term—12. Every 
thing that is necessary for their 
Subsistence; namely, pay, bread, 
forage, and, in general, all emo- 
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luments, as well ordinary as exe 
traordiuary, attached to every rank 
on the same footing that be allows 
them to his British troops in the dif- 
ferent places of their destination ; 
and for this purpose the statements 
of payment shall be annexed to the 
present treaty. 2. Medicines and 
sustenance forthe sick and wound- 
ed, with a place and the necessary 
means of conveyance wherein they 
may be treated and taken care of, 
precisely on the same footing as the: 
national British troops, by their own 
physicians and surgeons. The pay 
shall commence from the day of 
the review, according to the effec- 
tive state in which the said corps 
shall be delivered, which shall be 
verified by a table, signed bv the 
respective ministers of the high 
contracting parties, which shall 
have the same force as if it had 
been inserted .word for word in the 
present treaty- 
7. As in the before-mentioned 
table the strength of each compa- 
ny, of which four make a battalion, 
amounts to one hundred and sixty- 
three soldiers, it must be observed, 
that in this pumber are comprised 
seven men unarmed, intended, ac- 
cording to the established custom 
in the Hessian service, to serve as 
servants to officers, andit is agreed 
upon that these men shall nevers 
theless pass muster as soldiers im 
every respect. 
8. As itis to be feared that, not~ 
withstanding the care made use of, 
it will not be possible entirely to 
prevent desertion until the arrival 
of the troops at the place of em- 
barkation, and his serene highness 
promising to employ every means 
in his power that the said corps 
shall be embarked complete, it is 
agreed upon, that there shall be ‘# 
the 
