456 Assembly Proceedings, Feb. 23,-May 22, 1756.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 48
May 22

the Full Value of Such Arms and also the further Sum of Twenty
Pounds Current Money And be it Enacted by the Authority afore-
said That no Arms whatsoever which shall be used by any Officer or
private person of the Militia as the Proper Arms of Such Officer
or private Person Shall be liable to the Satisfaction of any Debt
whatsoever or be Seized or taken by or upon any manner of Distress
writ of Execution or any Process whatsoever (except that of Attach-
ment upon the Actual running away or absconding of Such Officer
or private Person who shall find his Arms at his own proper Cost
and Expence) and every Distress Seisure Execution or Process
(except as aforesaid) made or Served upon Such Arms Shall be
deemed to be void and the Person Serving or Executing the Same
liable to the Suit of the Party Aggrieved wherein treble Damages
and Costs shall be recovered and moreover Such Arms shall be
Seized by the Order of the Commanding Officer of the Person to
whom such Arms Shall belong for the Use of the Owner or Pro-
prieter thereof.
And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that it Shall and
may be lawful for the Colonel or Commanding Officer aforesaid
upon Notice or Information that any Person who shall receive
Arms upon his Receipt only without paying or Securing to be paid
as aforesaid the first Cost thereof hath Sold or otherwise disposed
thereof to Seise or Order Such Arms to be Seised whether in or out
of the County and the Person who shall receive Such Arms upon
Such Sale or Disposition Shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Ten
Pounds Current Money and the Person Selling or disposing thereof
shall forfeit and pay the like Sum of Ten Pounds Current Money.
And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that if any
Person to whom Arms Shall be delivered as aforesaid on his Receipt

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only without his paying or Securing to be paid the first Cost thereof
as aforesaid Shall abscond and carry away his Said Arms Such
Person shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Pounds Current
Money. And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all and
every the Officers and private Men (being inlisted as aforesaid) of
the Militia of this Province Shall form into Regiments Troops or
Companys as the Governor or Commander in Chief for the Time
being shall order and appoint under the Penalty of Forty Shillings
Current Money upon each Person who shall refuse or Neglect to
do the Same in pursuance of Such Order or Appointment and the
same Penalty for every Thirty days Neglect thereafter. Provided
always that the Troops of Horse in Each County Shall not exceed
the Number of two or consist of more than thirty Six Troopers each
(excluding Officers) And that no person shall be compellable to enter
into any Troop of Horse who hath not a visible Estate of Five
hundred Pounds Current Money to be adjudged in Case of Dispute
by a Majority of the ffield Officers of the County.