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Start date: 1750Subject: search.filters.subject.ARMED FORCES

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    1866 Mass. Acts 197, An Act Concerning The Militia, § 120
    (General Publisher, 1866)
    A soldier who unnecessarily or without order from a superior officer comes to any parade with his musket, rifle or pistol loaded with ball, slug or shot, or so loads the same while on parade, or unnecessarily or without order form a superior officer discharges the same when going to, returning from or upon parade, shall forfeit not less than five nor more than twenty dollars.
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    1859 Mass. Gen. Stat. 107, ch. 13, § 113
    (General Publisher, 1859)
    A soldier who unnecessarily, or without order from a superior officer, comes to any parade, with his musket, rifle, or pistol, loaded with ball, slug, or shot, or so loads the same while on parade, or unnecessarily, or without order from a superior officer, discharges the same when going to, returning from, or upon parade, shall forfeit not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, to be recovered on complaint of the clerk, one-half to his use and one-half to the use of commanding officer.
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    Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 240 § 1 (1837)
    (General Publisher, 1837)
    Enrolled every able bodied white male citizen resident between eighteen to forty-five into the miltiia except idiots, lunatics, common drunkards, vagabonds, paupers, persons convicted of any infamous crime.
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    1775 Mass. Acts 15, An Act For Forming And Regulating The Militia Within The Colony Of The Massachusetts Bay, In New England, And For Repealing All The Laws Heretofore Made For That Purpose, ch. 1, §§ 1,7,9.
    (General Publisher, 1775)
    § 1. . . That that part of the militia of this Colony, commonly called the Training-Band, shall be constituted of all the able-bodied male persons therein, from sixteen years old to fifty [excepting Quakers and others]. . . § 7. . . That each and every officer, and private soldier of said militia, not under the controul of parents, master, or gaurdians, and being of sufficient ability therefor, in the judgement of the select-men if the town wherein he has his usual place of abode, shall equip himself, and be constantly provided with a good firearm. . . § 9 . . . That the clerk of each and every company of said militia, shall . . . take an exact list of his company, and of each man’s equipment respectively. .
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    1757 Mass. Acts 323, An Act in Addition to the Several Acts of This Province for Regulating the Militia, ch. 12
    (General Publisher, 1757)
    .. That the Captain or Chief Officer of each military foot company, shall instruct and employ his Company in military exercises six days in a year . . . and on each of said days he shall make a strict enquiry into the state of the arms and ammunition of his Company . . . that every person from the age of sixteen to sixty, not exempted by law, shall appear with arms and ammunition according to law, and attend his duty each of the aforesaid days. . .

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