412 Assembly Proceedings, April — May 1661.

U. H.
Journal
1659-69

sattisfye the aforesaid penalty or that the same be not speedily
sattisfyed then shall the person soe offending suffer two moneths
Imprisonm^t without Bayle or Mayneprise
Provided that this Acte nor any thing therein conteyned shall
not extend nor be Interpreted to Extend to the p^rjudice of any
of the lords of Manners within this Province in their priviledges
of appoynting Constables within their Respectiue Manno^rs
And be it further Enacted that every County Courte yearely

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some tyme in the moneth of March doe p^rsent to the Right
honorable the Lord Proprietary and his heires or to his or their
Leiuetenn^t or Cheife Governor of this Province three persons
out of which three his Lop. or his heires or his or their Governor
of this Province may appoynte one to serue as Sherriffe And
that such Sherriffe soe appoynted as aforesaid shall serue as
Sherriffe one yeare and noe longer This Acte to endure for
three yeares or to the end of the next Generall Assembly

The lower howse haue Assented The vpper howse haue
Will. Bretton Clk Assented
John Gittings Clre:

An Acte for Millitary discipline

For as much as the Exerciseing and Trayneing vp of Soul-
diers in the Arte of warre and Millitary discipline is at all
tymes most necessary And hath even in theis tymes of danger
for want of a Setled lawe thereto provideing been most of all
neglected to the Endangering of the whole Collony Be it
enacted by the Right honorable the Lord Proprietary with the
advise and Consent of the vpper and lower howse of this p^rsent
Generall Assembly that every Collonall Leiuetennant Coll.
Major or Captaine of any trayned Bands within this Province
shall haue power to Enlist such and soe many persons in-
habiting within their respectiue and severall diuisions betweene
Sixteene and Sixty yeares of age as they shall thinke fitt, not
being priviledged by their place Employment or Impotency to
be of their trayned Bands which persons soe to be Enlisted
they shall muster Exercise and trayne vp once every three
moneths certaine and oftner if the Governor and Councell shall
see cause soe to order And every person enlisted into any
trayned Band shall be bound to appeare vpon a Sumons or
Warning Giuen by the officers of the trayned Band foure tymes
every yeare or as often as he shall be therevnto lawfully re-
quired by the officers Comanding such trayned Band and there
muster Exercise and trayne according as he shall be by the

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said Officer commanded And if any person soe Enlisted
summoned or Warned as aforesaid shall not appeare according