Statutes of Ohio & of the Northwestern Terr. 378-79, ch 25, § 1 (Vol. 1, 1833)

Abstract

[t]hat each and every free, able bodied, white male citizen of the territory, who is or shall be the age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty five-years, except as is herein after excepted, shall . . . be enrolled in the militia . . . and every citizen, so enrolled and notified, shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket,