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from one station to another ; to apprehend all thieves 

 and other vagabonds that infested the country, and 

 deliver them over to the civil magistrates ; to appre- 

 hend deserters, and conduct them from station to 

 station to their regiments ; to conduct all prisoners 

 from one part of the country to another ; to assist the 

 civil magistrate in the execution of the laws, and in 

 preserving peace and order in the country, in all cases 

 where they should be legally called upon for that pur- 

 pose ; to perform the duty of messengers in carrying 

 government despatches and orders, civil as well as mili- 

 tary, in cases of emergency ; and to bring accounts to 

 the capital, by express, of every extraordinary event of 

 importance that happens in the country ; to guard the 

 frontiers, and assist the officers of the revenue in 

 preventing smuggling ; to have a watchful eye over all 

 soldiers on furlough in the country, and, when guilty of 

 excesses, to apprehend them and transport them to 

 their regiments ; to assist the inhabitants in case of 

 fire, and particularly to guard their effects, and prevent 

 their being lost or stolen in the confusion which com- 

 monly takes place on those occasions ; to pursue and 

 apprehend all thieves, robbers, murderers, and other 

 malefactors ; and, in general, to lend their assistance on 

 all occasions where they could be useful in maintain- 

 ing peace, order, and tranquillity in the country. 



As the sovereign had an undoubted right to quarter 

 his troops upon the inhabitants when they were em- 

 ployed for the police and defence of the country, they 

 were on this occasion called upon to provide quarters 

 for the men distributed in these cantonments ; but, in 

 order to make this burden as light as possible to the 

 inhabitants, they were only called upon to provide 



