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

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

by the Authority aforesaid that any Person of the Militia who shall
get drunk on any Muster-day before or at Muster shall forfeit the
Sum of Ten Shillings Current Money and any Person who shall
presume to vend Sell or Dispose of any Strong Liquor at any Place
of training or at any other Race within Five Miles of any Place
of training to any Person belonging to the Militia on any Muster
day except between the Time of Discharge from such Training for
that day and the Sun sitting thereof Such Person so vending selling
or disposing of Such Strong Liquors Shall forfeit and pay the Sum
of Five Pounds Current Money And no Person other than a licenced
Ordinary Keeper shall vend Sell or dispose of any Strong Liquors
to any Person whatever at such Time and Place aforesaid even
between the Hours aforesaid under the Penalty of Five Pounds
Current Money for every Such Offence and it Shall and may be
lawfull for the Commanding Officer of the Party at such Muster
and he is hereby directed and required to order the Strong Liquors
of the Person so offending to be Siezed and Destroyed Provided
always that nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend
to any Merchant or licenced Ordinary-Keeper who shall vend Sell
or Dispose of any Strong Liquors in his or her House the same
not being to any Person of the Militia or any for the Use of Such
Person And Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That
every Papist above the Age of fourteen Years or any other Person
refusing to take the Oaths appointed by Law to be taken to the
Government which the Commanding Officer present shall administer
and repeat the Test and Subscribe the same and the Oath of abju-
ration who shall be found at any Place and of Training or within
View thereof, during the Time of Exercise Shall forfeit and pay
Fifty Shillings Current Money and Shall by any Commission Officer
then present be ordered to Depart and in Case such Papist or other
Person shall not immediately on such Order depart out of View of
such Place or after departing shall return again that day he shall

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forfeit and pay the further Sum of Five Pounds Current Money
and be committed by a Magistrate and in Case no Magistrate Shall
be present by the Commanding Officer present to the Custody of
the Sheriff there to remain untill he shall give Sufficient Security
for his good Behaviour for three Months and that he shall not be
found at or within View of any Place of Training in the Time of
Exercise till the Expiration of the Time aforesaid and if any Negroe
or Mullatto Slave, except the Necessary Attendants of any Person
who Shall be there and except any Slave who shall be found working
on his Masters Plantation or passing by upon Some lawful Occasion
Shall be found at any Place and day of Training or within View
thereof after the hour appointed for meeting the Commanding
Officer present shall order such Negro or Mullatto Slave to be
whipped on his or her bare Back untill the Blood Shall appear with