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Statutory Text
SECT. 18. And be it further enacted, That every noncommissioned officer and private, who shall appear on parade, not completely equipped according to law, shall forfeit and pay the following sums as fines for the equipments, with which he shall not be provided, to wit; a gun, eighty cents; steel or iron ramrod, twenty cents; bayonet, scabbard and belt, twenty five cents; rifle, one dollar; pistol, forty cents; sword, forty cents; two spare flints, ten cents; priming wire and brush, ten cents; cartridge box capable of containing twenty four rounds, twenty five cents; cavalry cartridge box, twenty five cents; knapsack, twenty cents; canteen, ten cents; valise, twenty cents; holsters, twenty cents. And if any noncommissioned officer or private shall neglect to have his gun and bayonet, or rifle, or pistols clean and in good order, he shall pay a fine of fifty cents. And if any noncommissioned officer or private shall come on the parade with his musket or pistol loaded with powder and ball, slugs or shot, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of two dollars.