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An Abridgment of the Laws of
IV. All Ministers, Pastors, and Magistrates,
who according
to the Laws of this Province do usually joyn
People in Marriage, shall joyn them in manner and
form as exprest in the Liturgy of the Church of England;
after which the Minister, Pastor, or Magistrate shall say,
I being hereunto by Law authorized, do pronounce you lawful
Man and Wife.
V. The Minister, Pastor, or
Magistrate, may receive
from the parties Marry'd, 100 l. of Tobacco.
Militia.
I. An.
11.
W. 3. 1699. p. 99. Every Collonel, Major
or Captain of Foot commissionated by the Governor,
may list men (not hereafter excepted) between 16 and
60, as they think fit, to be of the Militia or Trainbands of
this Province, which persons so
listed they shall muster
and exercise at such times and places as they shall think
meet, or as the Governor shall appoint.
II. Every such Collonel, &c. shall
give notice upon
every Training to every person so listed, to appear at such
time and place as he shall appoint, and if any man after
such notice shall neglect to appear, or to bring with him
a serviceable Gun with 6 shoots of Powder, he shall for
every such offence, if a Freeman, forfeit 100 l. of Tobacco;
if a Servant, the Master, Mistress or Overseer to
pay the like summ for such Servant, for the use of the
Foot Company, to purchase Drums and Colours, &c,
Provided no Officer shall press Arms or Ammunition
for any further service than Training, but upon all such
occasions they shall be supplied out of the County Magazine.
All which forfeitures shall be adjudged and levy'd
by the Collonel, Major or Captain of any Foot Company.
III. A Captain of Horse in each County
shall list his
number of Men out of the Inhabitants of the said
County, according to the Instructions sent him by
the Governor. Troopers shall ride their own Horses,
every Trooper shall have a serviceable Horse which
shall pass muster, shall find himself with sufficient
Furniture, Sword, Carbine, Pistols, Holsters and Ammunition;
if he shall neglect to appear upon notice
given (as aforesaid to the Foot) accoutred as aforesaid,
he shall forfeit the sum of 100 l. of Tobacco
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