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Session Laws, 1811
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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR

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be exempted from militia duty, on account of consci-
entious scruples, who shall not produce to the captain
or commanding officer of the district where he resides,
a certificate from a licensed preacher of the gospel, or
signed by the proper officer of the religious society, to
which such person may belong, (except where no such
society shall exist, that recourse may be had to, ) in
substance as follows, to wit: "I the subscriber,
of the meeting or society of
in the county of hereby certify that I verily
do believe that from his exemplary
deportment, and uniform declarations; and from his
frequently and usually attending with said society for
public worship, is conscientiously scrupulous of bear-
ing arms. "And it shall at all times hereafter be the duty
of every captain or commanding officer of a company,
to enrol every able bodied white male citizen, between
eighteen and forty-five years of age; and also, al!
those who shall from time to time arrive at the age of
eighteen years, who shall reside within his bounds;
and he shall without delay, notify such citizen of the
said enrolment, by a proper non-commissioned officer
of the company, or other suitable person by whom
such notice may be proved; and in all cases of doubt,
respecting the age or any person enrolled or intended
to be enrolled, the person whose age is questioned,
shall prove the same to the satisfaction of the com-
manding officer; and if any person called on to be
enrolled, shall refuse to declare his true name and
age, to the best of his knowledge, or the name of any
person, an inhabitant of his house with which he is
acquainted, he shall for each offence, forfeit and pay
the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered by the said
commanding officer, for the use of his company, as
other fines and forfeitures are directed to be recover-
ed by this act.

1812.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no free white
male citizen of the age of eighteen, and under forty-
five years, shall be excused from militia duty on ac-
count of corporal inability, unless he shall obtain from
the surgeon of the regiment to which he belongs, if
any, or if none, from two respectable physicians of his
county, a certificate that he is not of sufficient ability

Corporal ina-
bility.

to perform militia duty; Provided, That the certifi-
cate of one physician shall be deemed sufficient to
those counties where only one physician resides.

Proviso.

AND WHEREAS, The militia of this state hath
heretofore been enrolled and arranged into divisions,
brigades, regiments, battalions and companies, and

Sectional pre-
amble.



 
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