1780 — Pennsylvania — Militia Arms

2 Arthur Vollmer, Military Obligation: The American Tradition: A Compilation of the Enactments of Compulsion from the Earliest Settlements of the Original Thirteen Colonies in 1607 Through the Articles of Confederation 1789, Part 11 97 (1947)

Summary

Militia arms must be properly maintained.

Statutory Text

SECT. 4. […] and if any non-commissioned officer or private shall, on any occasion of parading the company to which he belongs, appear with his arms and accoutrements in an unfit condition, or be found drunk or shall disobey orders or use any reproachful or abusive language to his officers or any of them; or shall quarrel himself, or promote any quarrel among his fellow soldiers, he shall be disarmed and put under guard, by order of the commanding officer present, until the company is dismissed, and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding the price of ten day’s labour, nor less than one day’s labour.

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Title 1780 — Pennsylvania — Militia Arms
Instrument Firearms
Jurisdiction PA
Date 1780