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Otficei s of the army, to be fined upon all occasions, without limit or distinction. 6th. No member of the Board to keep more than one wife And one concubine. 7th. No decision of ours, to be made in public court. 8th. One spy to be kept in each ward and to be paid out of prices exacted from poor citizens. gth. No honest man to he employed by our Board. \ 10th. Jack Oneil, late drummer in the U. S. army, having deserted his wife and taken to his bed and b«»ard a Lady of very mmora/ character, h hereby publicly repriman4ed. 11th. Old refte/s'members otour Board are again requested to keep their own Council. 12th Philo Bennett, £x-preacher having received absolu- tion from the Pope for adultery and fornication, is appomted Chaplain to our board. 13th. His Reverence the said Philo, above, is hereby again ordered to refund all the property he plundered from the Yankee settlers during the late rebellion, when acting under the cloak of a Loyalist. 14tn The said Philo, is warned by our board not to go over to Detroit as a spy in case we might loose his valuable services 15th. No gentleman with capital to be allowed to settle in our town or country. 16ih. None of her 'Majesties soldiers to be allowed t( walk on OUR side streets, but the officers may have permis sion tr promenade when the Corporation are at dinner.by ap plication to his holiness Bishop Bennett. 17th. That it is our pleasure to keep the troops in t^is gar- rison, while they expend $200,000 a year, but they muni be changed at our will, and when we think best. I8th. The highest price will be paid tq our infoimers — bailiffs, spies, constables, (and old Dan Brown, the assessor,) for any sort of information against her majesty's officers, to bring them befqre us at our honorable court of the inquisition, where, we | romise that allcas:.s against them, light or wrong, pballbe decided as formerly in private, i. e. they mustipay. II l9th. TTiat members of oiir Board only be allowed to pile their shop goo