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AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That every Male Person above Seventeen, and under Fifty, Years of Age, (except such as in the Judgment of the Captain, or other Commanding Officer, of the Hundred or District in which he resides, be adjudged incapable by Reason of his Poverty) shall, on or before the first Day of January next, provide himself with one well fixed Musket, or Fuzee, with a Worm and Priming-wire, one Cartouch-Box, with nine Charges of Gunpowder, and Ball suitable therein, and three good Flints, to be approved of by the Commanding Officer of the respective Company to which he belongs, and shall keep such Arms and Ammunition by him in good Order, and fit for Service, at all Times during the Continuance of this Act, under the Penalty of Twenty Shillings for want of a well fixed Musket or Fuzee, with a Worm and Priming-wire; and Two Shillings and Six-pence for the want of every Cartouch Box; and Two Shillings for the want of nine Charges of Gunpowder and Ball, and three Flints, or any of them.