MILITIA

—To appoint a person, who shall call over the muster
roll, noting those who are absent and making a return
to the officer,
    Penalty on officers not attending, or refusing to do
their duty, &c.
—On non-commissioned officers and privates for such
neglect or refusal, or departing without leave,
    Penalty on non-commissioned officers and privates
having arms, &c. appearing without them, in serviceable
order,
    Quakers, &c. scrupulous of bearing arms, and all
other persons exempt under this act, (except those exempt
under the act of congress and ministers of the
gospel,) shall be exempt from militia duty according
to the provisions of this act, (except when called into
actual service,) on the payment of three dollars annually,
    The commanding officer of each company to appoint
the non-commissioned officers,
—Penalty on such persons neglecting or refusing to
do the duties or obey orders after acceptance,
—Allowance to them, (out of the fines,) for giving
notice of meetings,
    Violations of this law, when to be inquired into by
a company court martial, &c.
    Officers removing out of a district deemed to have
resigned their commissions,
—The commanding officer to make such vacancies
known to the governor and council,
—Exception as to Baltimore, and provisions concerning
the staff officers therein,
    Resignations of company and staff officers to be made
through their commanding officers, and resignations
of commanding officers of regiments, &c. through their
brigadiers, within sixty days prior to the regular field
days, except in case of removal,
—Otherwise, no officer shall be considered as having
resigned,
—A notification to be transmitted to the governor
and council, within twenty days,
—Not binding on independent corps, or where there
may be no field officer or brigadier in commission,
    Where a militia man may be draughted to perform
a tour of duty under this act, he shall be considered
as a soldier, and liable to all the duties as such, unless
he find a substitute,
—The commanding officer of the regiment or extra
battalion to be the sole judge of the qualification of 
the said substitute, and may receive or reject him at
his pleasure,
    All able bodied male white persons between 18 and
45 years of age, shall stand their draught, (except as
herein excepted,)
—Quakers, &c. not exempt from standing
their draught,
—When the militia, or any part shall be draughted or
called out of the state into actual service, every person
liable, who is not a commissioned officer, may serve
in person, or find a sufficient substitute, to be approved
by the commanding officer of the regiment, &c.
—Where a person, (not disabled by sickness,) neglects
or refuses to find a substitute, directions given
for procuring a substitute by the commanding officer,
and for payment of the expense, and recovery from the
delinquent,
—No militia-man having personally, or by substitute,
served in the militia, shall be obliged to serve
again until by rotation it comes to his turn,

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