6. And be it Enacted, That every person betwen the ages of eighteen and fifty, or who may hereafter attain to the age of eighteen years (clergymen preachers of the gospel of every denomination, judges of the Supreme Court, Sheriffs, Keepers of the public gaols, school-masters teaching a latin school, or having at least twenty English scholars, and indented servants bona fide purchased, exempted) who is rated at six pounds, or upwards, towards the payment of public taxes, shall, at his own expense, provide himself; and every apprentice, or other person, of the age of eighteen and under twenty-one years who hath an estate of the value of eighty pounds, or whose parent is rated at eighteen pounds towards the publi taxes, shall, by his parents or guardian, respectivley, be provided with a musket or firelock with a bayonet, a cartough-box to contain twenty-three cartridges, a priming-wire, a brush and fix flints, all in good order, on or before the first day of June next, and shall keep the fame by him at all times, ready and fit for service, under the penalty of twenty shillings for every two months neglect or default, to be paid by such person, if of full age, or by the parents or guardian of such as are under twenty-one years, and the same arms and accoutrements to be charged by the guardian to his ward, and allowed at fettling the accounts of his guardianship.