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AUP EP OBE UN GHD eae CIN Sie: 
Hatr the price of a volunteer has been generally fixed at four 
guineas, or four and a half: yet I have known, in the very 
week in which ten or twelve guineas have been prodigally be- 
{towed on a fubftitute, men equally good have been inlifted in 
the regulars for four; and within five weeks after enrolling, a 
militia fubftitute to fupply a vacancy has been got by one of 
the parifhes for four only, 
In cafe half the price of a volunteer is to be raifed on the 
country, you have an indulgence of deferring the payment one 
whole month. Among other reafons, is this; it gives time to 
the overfeers of the poor, who are charged with the payment, 
to collet the money from their poor brethren, it being well 
known that many who are thus taxed are worfe off than thofe 
for whofe ufe the money is raifed. Perhaps almoft the whole 
month may be required for the diftrefled tenant to get in a little 
money, notwithftanding all the trouble. and ill-will the overfeer 
has in difcharge of his office. 
Bur our law-makers had another reafon for giving you a 
month’s time for the payment; becaufe (as I faid before) the 
commanding officer has power to difcharge any man he dif- 
likes within one month after enrolling, and then no fuch money 
is to be paid to that perfon, but to the next chofen by lot in his 
ftead. Now it may happen, that if you pay it to the firft per- 
fon on, or foon after the day of enrolling, he may die within the 
month, or he may be difcharged, and in the laft cafe moft pro- 
bably may have fpent the money ; in fo much that the parifh muft 
pay the fame fum over again to the next perfon, who is as liable 
to be difcharged within a day or two, as the other, and the parifh 
put, 
