WATCH AND WARD. Rotation.Exercife.Difcipline preserved by Fines of Labour.-Watch Duty of Indentured Servants to be allowed and deducted from the Term of their Indentures. 1 THE hundred deciners should ferve, three at a time at leaft, with fix privates, in due rotation, as the nightly guard of the hundred divifton; which guard being divided into three parties of one deciner and two privates each, one party may patrole, whilst the other two are stationed at the gate-house, or watchtower, alternately watching and refting every four hours; but the patroling and watching party must relieve each other every two hours, until it is their turn to reft four hours in the inner guard room; by this means the watch duty may be rendered rendered very eafy and equal to all ranks of persons in the hundred; and even if the captain and four of the oldeft deciners, together. with eight of the youngest privates be excufed the nightly duty, the rotation of this eafy fervice to each individual will be only once in thirty-two nights, viz, lefs than twelve nights in a year, which cannot interfere with their ordinary employments: but for the fake of keeping up proper difcipline, triple the number ought to affemble in rotation, every evening and morning, to fet and to difcharge the guard, after the performance of a short military exercife all together, under the infpection of the captain, or one of the lieutenants, (being previously trained or drilled in fmall fquads under the infpection of their respective ferjeants) and this attendance may be rendered perfectly equal and regular to all ranks, by a proper rofter of fervice, duly diftinguishing the courfes courfes of Watch and Ward from the rotation of attendance for mere exercise. Want of punctuality in mufters, or abfence, should be punished in proportion to the time loft, by equal fines on all ranks of men, estimated at fo many days or bours labour (as hereafter explained) towards the fupport of the public Exchequer. Difobedience of orders on fervice, and inattention or careleffnefs in exercife, and all fuch other mifdemeanors, should be likewife punished by fines of labourfor publick profit, The watch duty of an indentured fervant should be rewarded by a deduction of one day's service from his indentures for each night that he attends on miliC 2 tary tary duty, which will encourage his vigilance, and win his attention to the interefts of the fettlement; and by his being entered on the fame rofter with the whole body of deciners, and by ferving, in due rotation, with them, he will foon perceive the facility and happiness of becoming a deciner himself by proper diligence in fulfilling his contract of labour; especially as the regulations, hereafter to be mentioned, will infure him from the impofition of more service than is due, and from the fraud or oppreffion of an unjust master; and he will acquire ftill further fecurity by being known, and by becoming acquainted with other deciners (befides his mafter) in the mi◄ litia fervice. FREE FREE LABOU R. Free Labour to be the Standard or Medium Traffick instead of Cafb.-Times of Labour (publick or hired) to be general and uniform.Evening Prayer and the Advantages of it.Limitation of Labour per Day to eight Hours. -And only Six Hours on Saturdays, that the People may attend the Courts and Folkmotes to improve their Difcernment of Good and Evil. HUMAN Labour is more effential and valuable than any other article in new fettlements, which chiefly depend on the cultivation and produce of the earth for their fubfiftence and commercial profit. On this account, though the price of provifions is generally lower in new fettlements than in communities of long ftanding, yet the price of Free Labour is always much higher; and higher still, or rather infinitely more expenfive |