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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
_____ _____, of the meeting or society of _____, in the county of _____,
hereby certify, that I verily do believe that _____ _____, from his
exemplary deportment, and uniform declarations, and from his
frequently and usually attending with said society for public worship,
is conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms." And it shall
at all times hereafter be the duty of every captain or commanding
officer of a company, to enrol (a) every able bodied white male citizen,
between eighteen and forty-five years of age, and also all
those who shall from time to time arrive at the age of eighteen years,
who shall reside within his bounds; and he shall, without delay,
notify such citizen of the said enrolment, by a proper non-commissioned
officer of the company, or other suitable person by whom
such notice may be proved; and in all cases of doubt respecting the
age of any person enrolled or intended to be enrolled, the person
whose age is questioned shall prove the same to the satisfaction of
the commanding officer; and if any person called on to be enrolled,
shall refuse to declare his true name and age, to the best of his knowledge,
or the name of any person, an inhabitant of his house, with
which he is acquainted, he shall for each offence forfeit and pay
the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered by the said commanding officer,
for the use of his company, as other fines and forfeitures are
directed to be recovered by this act.
(a) By June 1812, ch. 9, a correct
return of enrolment to be made to the commanding
officer of the regiment, &c. |
1811.
CHAP. 182. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no free white male
citizen of the
age of eighteen, and under forty-five years, shall be excused from
militia duty on account of corporal inability, unless he shall obtain
from the surgeon of the regiment to which he belongs, if any, or
if none, from two respectable physicians of his county, a certificate
that he is not of sufficient ability to perform militia duty; Provided,
that the certificate of one physician shall be deemed sufficient to
those counties where only one physician resides.
By June 1812, ch. 9, s. 3, all certificates
before granted, declared void, and all
surgeons, and their mates, before granting any certificate of corporal
inability, to
take an oath. |
Corporal inability.
Proviso. |
3. AND whereas, the militia of this state
hath heretofore been enrolled
and arranged into divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions
and companies, and the same were numbered and recorded in the
adjutant general's office, and where convenient, each brigade hath
been made to consist of four regiments, each regiment of two battalions,
each battalion of five companies, each company of sixty-four
privates, four sergeants, four corporals, one drummer and
one fifer or bugler; therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That the said enrolment
and arrangement shall be and the same is hereby confirmed,
except in cases where the same may be altered and changed in
manner following, viz. where a major-general shall call a meeting
of the brigadiers of his division at some central place thereof, and
convenient time, to be by him appointed, who shall revise the arrangements
and bounds of the several brigades within his district,
and make any alterations of the same that may appear to them necessary,
and in case of such alteration being made, the major-general
shall retain the same to the adjutant-general's office; and
where each brigadier shall call together the lieutenant-colonels and
majors of their several brigades, at some convenient place and time |
Former enrolments
confirmed
except in certain
cases. Bounds
of districts to be
fixed. |
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