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<p n="420"> ( I )</p>
<p n="421">A</p>
<p n="422">BILL,</p>
<p n="423">INTITULED,</p>
<p n="424">At Act for enabling His Majesty to raise a provisional<lb></lb>
Force of Cavalry, to be embodied, in case of Ne<lb></lb>
cessity, for the Defence of these Kingdoms.</p>
<p n="425">WHEREAS it is expedient, in the present Conjunctore,<lb></lb>
that a Body of Cavalry should be enrolled, and kept in<lb></lb>
Readiness to be called out to actual Service, whenever<lb></lb>
it shall be necessary, in order to prevent or repel any In<lb></lb>
vasion that may be attempted by the Enemies of the<lb></lb>
Country: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it<lb></lb>
may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Ma<lb></lb>
jesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and<lb></lb>
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by<lb></lb>
the Authority of the same, That throughout that Part of Great Britain<lb></lb>
called <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMPS50934_geo434">England</rs>
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, there shall be enrolled, for His Majesty's Service, One<lb></lb>
Horseman clothed, and furnished as herein-after prescribed, and equipped,<lb></lb>
with One able and sufficient Mare or Gelding, fit for Military Duty, for<lb></lb>
and in respect of every Ten Horses, Mares, or Geldings, kept for the Pur<lb></lb>
pose of Riding, or for drawing any Carriage, mentioned and described in<lb></lb>
several Acts of Parliament of the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirty<lb></lb>
sixth Years of the Regin of His present Majesty, and charged to the Duties on<lb></lb>
Horses, granted by the said Acts, by any Assessment made, or to be made,<lb></lb>
after the Fifth Day of April One thousand seven hundred and ninety-six,<lb></lb>
during</p>
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