QUESTIONS to be put separately by the JUSTICE to a RECRUIT

ON ENLISTING.

1. What is your Name?

2. In what Parish, and in or near what Town, and in what County, were you born?

3. What is your Age?

4. What is your Trade or Calling?

5. Are you an Apprentice?

6. Are you married?

7. Are you ruptured or lame; have you ever been subject to Fits; or have you any Disability or Disorder which impedes the free Use of your Limbs, or unfits you for ordinary Labour?

8. Are you willing to be attested to serve in the

Regiment of
for the Term of [this Blank
to be filled up by the Justices with Ten Years for Infantry,
and Twelve for Cavalry or Artillery or other Ordnance
Corps, if the Person enlisted is of the Age of Eighteen
Years or upwards; but if under that Age, then the Differ-
ence between his Age and Eighteen is to be added to such
Ten or Twelve Years (as the Case may be)], provided
Her Majesty should so long require your Services, and
also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as
shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any
Foreign Station?

9. At what Place, on what Day, at what Hour of the Day, and by whom were you enlisted?

10. For what Bounty did you enlist?

11. Have you any Objection to make to the Manner of your Enlistment?

12. Do you now belong to the Militia?

13. Do you belong to any other Regiment, or to the Marines, Ordnance, or Navy, or to the Forces of the East India Company?

14. Have you ever served in the Army, Marines, Ordnance, or Navy, or in the Forces of the East India Company? 15. Have you ever been rejected as unfit for Her Majesty's Service, or for the Service of the East India Company, upon any prior Enlistment?

Note.-The Justice is directed in putting the Twelfth Question to the Recruit, and before he receives his Answer, distinctly to apprize the Recruit that if he belongs to the Militia, and denies the Fact, he is liable to Six Months Imprisonment.

Enlisting for Service in Her Majesty's Colonies.

Question 8. is to be put by the Justice as follows:

8. Are you willing to be attested to serve in Her Majesty's Colony of for the Term of [this Blank to be filled up by the Justices with Ten Years for Infantry,

and Twelve for Cavalry or Artillery or other Ordnance Corps, if the Person enlisted is of the Age of Eighteen Years or upwards; but if under that Age, then the Difference between his Age and Eighteen is to be added to such Ten or Twelve Years (as the Case may be)], provided Her Majesty should so long require your Services, and also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any Foreign Station?

Enlisting for either Her Majesty's or the East India Company's Service.

Question 8. is to be put by the Justice as follows :

8. Are you willing to be attested to serve in Her Majesty's Army, or in the Forces of the East India Company, according as Her Majesty shall think fit to order, for the Term of [this Blank to be filled up by the Justices with Ten Years for Infantry, and Twelve for Cavalry or Artillery or other Ordnance Corps, if the Person enlisted is of the Age of Eighteen Years or upwards; but if under that Age, then the Difference between his Age and Eighteen is to be added to such Ten or Twelve Years (as the Case may be)], provided your Services should so long be required, and also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any Foreign Station?

Enlisting for the East India Company's Service.

Question 8. to be put by the Justice as follows:

8. Are you willing to be attested to serve the East India Company for the Term of [this Blank to be filled up by the Justices with Ten Years for Infantry, and Twelve for Cavalry or Artillery or other Ordnance Corps, if the Person enlisted is of the Age of Eighteen Years or upwards; but if under that Age, then the Difference between his Age and Eighteen is to be added to such Ten or Twelve Years (as the Case may be)], provided the said Company should so long require your Services, and also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any Foreign Station?

The Blank to be filled up with the Words Infantry or Artillery as the Case may be.

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OATH to be taken by a RECRUIT on ATTESTATION.

do make Oath, That the above Questions have been separately put to me; that the Answers thereto have been read over to me; and that they are the same that I gave, and are true.

I do also make Oath, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and that I will, as in Duty bound, honestly and faithfully defend Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, in Person, Crown, and Dignity, against all Enemies, and will observe and obey all Orders of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and of the Generals and Officers set over me. So help me GOD.

Witness my Hand,

Signature of Recruit.
Witness present.

If enlisting for either Her Majesty's or the East India Company's Service, the following Addition is to be made to the foregoing Oath:

And that if Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, shall please to appoint me to serve in the Forces of the East India Company, then I swear that I will also be true to the said Company, and will duly observe and obey all their Orders, and the Orders of their Generals and Officers who shall be lawfully

set over me.

If enlisting for the East India Company's Service, the following is to be added to the Oath:

And that I also will be true to the said Company, and will duly observe and obey all their Orders, and the Orders of their Generals and Officers who shall be lawfully set over me.

CERTIFICATE to be given by the JUSTICE.

to wit.

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Peace of

;

One of Her Majesty's Justices of the do hereby certify, That in my Presence all the foregoing Questions were put to that the Answers written opposite to them are those which he gave to me; and that the Fortieth and Forty-sixth Articles of the Articles of War were read over to him; that he took the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity; that he received the Sum of on being attested this Day; that he was not attested until Twenty-four Hours had elapsed after he received Enlisting Money; that the Place where he swears that he enlisted is in the Vicinity of my Residence, or within the Division or District or Place for which I act; that I am not an Officer of the Army; and that I have given him a Duplicate of this Certificate, signed with my Name.

Signature of Justice.

DECLARATION

DECLARATION to be made by a SOLDIER renewing his Service.

enlisted on the

Company in the

do declare, That I am

in Captain

Regiment; that I for a Term of

Day of Years; that I am of the Age of Years; and that I will serve Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, [or in the Forces of the East India Company, as the Case may be,] for a further Term of Years [to be filled up with Eleven Years in the Infantry, and Twelve in the Cavalry or Artillery or other Ordnance Corps, and, in the Case of a Soldier about to embark for Foreign Service, with such Number of Years as shall be required to complete a total Service of Twenty-one Years in the Infantry or Twenty-four in the Cavalry or Artillery or other Ordnance Corps,] provided my Services should so long be required, and also for such further Term, not exceeding Two Years, as shall be directed by the Commanding Officer on any Foreign Station.

Declared before me

Signature of Soldier.
Signature of Witness.

FORM of OATH to be taken by a MASTER whose APPRENTICE

to serve as an Apprentice to me in the said Trade, by Indenture dated the

about the

Day of

Years; and that the said

Day of

for the Term of did on or abscond and quit my

Service without my Consent; and that to the best of my Knowledge and Belief the said

hundred and

Years. Witness my Hand at
Day of

is aged about

the

One thousand eight

FORM of JUSTICE'S CERTIFICATE to be given to the MASTER

of an APPRENTICE.

came before me at
One thousand eight hundred and

and made Oath that he was by Trade a

and

>

was bound to serve as an Apprentice to him F

that

[No. 6. Price 2d.]

in

of

Day

Years; and

Day

abscond and quit the Service of the said

without his Consent, and that to the best of his Knowledge and Belief the said Apprentice is aged about

Years.

FORM of DECLARATION of ATTESTATION of a COMMISSARY'S

I

ACCOUNTS.

do solemnly and sincerely declare, That I

have not applied any Monies or Stores or Supplies under my Care or Distribution to my own Use, or to the private Use of any other Person by way of Loan to such Person or otherwise, or in any Manner applied them, or knowingly permitted them to be applied, to any other than public Purposes, according to the Duty of my Office; and I make this solemn Declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the Provisions of an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter 62, for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths, and for substituting Declarations in lieu thereof. Declared before me by the within-named

this

Day of

Justice of the Peace of

or Commander in Chief or Second in Command,

et cætera, the Army serving in

et cætera [as the Case may be].

No.