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BILL,

INTITULED,

At Act for enabling His Majesty to raise a provisional
Force of Cavalry, to be embodied, in case of Ne
cessity, for the Defence of these Kingdoms.

WHEREAS it is expedient, in the present Conjunctore,
that a Body of Cavalry should be enrolled, and kept in
Readiness to be called out to actual Service, whenever
it shall be necessary, in order to prevent or repel any In
vasion that may be attempted by the Enemies of the
Country: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it
may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Ma
jesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
the Authority of the same, That throughout that Part of Great Britain
called England , there shall be enrolled, for His Majesty's Service, One
Horseman clothed, and furnished as herein-after prescribed, and equipped,
with One able and sufficient Mare or Gelding, fit for Military Duty, for
and in respect of every Ten Horses, Mares, or Geldings, kept for the Pur
pose of Riding, or for drawing any Carriage, mentioned and described in
several Acts of Parliament of the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirty
sixth Years of the Regin of His present Majesty, and charged to the Duties on
Horses, granted by the said Acts, by any Assessment made, or to be made,
after the Fifth Day of April One thousand seven hundred and ninety-six,
during