palani
9th January 2013, 05:53 PM
As published here
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=0IGl3jR3yJEC&dat=17941018&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
and applies to lands northwest of the river Ohio.
Centinel of the North-Western Territories November 15, 1794
Chapter 1.
A LAW for regulating and establishing the Militia in the Territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, published at the city of Marietta, upon the twenty fifth day of July, in the thirteenth year of the Independence of the United States, and of our Lord one thousand severn hundred and eighty eight, by his Excellency Arthur St Clair, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief, and by the Honourable Samuel Holden Persons and James Mitchell Varnum, Esquires Judges.
All male inhabitants between the age of siteen and fifty, shall be liable to and perform military duty, and be formed into corps in the following manner.
Sixty four rank and file shall form a company. Eight companies shall form a battalion. Two battalions shall form a regiment.
There shall be appointed to each company, one captain, one lieutenant, one ensign, four serjeants, four corporals, one drummer and one fifer. To a battalion there shall be appointed, one lieutenant colonel, one major, and one adjutant. To a regiment one colonel.
The corps shall be divided into senior and junior classes.
And whereas in the infant state of the country, defence and protection are absolutely essential, all male inhabitants of the age of sixteen and upwards, shall be armed, equipped and accoutred in the following manner;
With a musket and bayonet, or rifle, cartidge box and pouch, or powder horn and bullet pouch, with forty rounds of cartidges or one pound of powder and four pounds of lead, priming wire and brush and six flints.
And whereas for securing the principles of defence and protection, it is necessary to be asembled upon certain times, and at certain places for examining and inspecting the arms, and accoutrements, and for discipling the men in a soldierly manner; And whereas the assembing of the members of community at fixed periods, conduces to health, civilization and morality, and such assembling without arms in a newly settled country, may be attended with danger – Therefore the corps shall be paraded at ten o’clock in the morning of each first day of the week, armed, equipped and acedurred as aforesaid, in convient places next adjacent to the place or places already assigned, or to be assigned for public worship; at other times and places, the corps shall be paraded for muster, exercise and review as the commander in chief may direct. And whereas in the present state of the territory it is necessary that guards be established; the commander in chief and the commanding officers of counties, and of smaller districts shall make such detatchments for guards and other military duty as the public exigencies may in his, or their opinion require.
Those who have born commissions, civil or military, in the service of the United States, or either of them, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and all such as have been graduated in colleges or universityies, shall compose the senior class. Males above the age of fifty shall be liable to military duty in cases of actual invasion only, and then at the direction of the commander in chief. Officers of civil government appointed by Congress or commissioned by the governour are exempted from the duties aforesaid.
If any male inhabitant shall neglect or refuse to appear at the fixed times and places of parade by this law established, he shall be fined in the sum of twenty five cents, unless he shall render an excuse to the satisfaction of the commanding officer of his corps. If any male as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to appear at such a time and place as the commander in chief shall specially direct, for muster, review and exercise, he shall be finded in the sum of fify cents, unless excused as aforsaid.
If any male as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to appear upon the order of the commander in chief, or other officers as aforesaid, for guards or other ordinary military duty, or refuse to perform the same, he shall be fined in the sume of one hundred cents – which offences shall be heard and determined by the officers of the company to which the offender may belong, and upon conviction , a warrant of distress shall issue from the commander of such company, directed to either of the serjeants of the same requiring him to collect the fines aforesaid, and pay the same into the treasury of the town, city or county wherein the conviction shall have taken place, within twenty days next after issuing such warrant. For the second, and all succeeding offences in the cases before mentioned, the persons chared with having committed the same, shall be heard, tried and sentenced by courts-martial.
If any male inhabitant as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to appear and perform his duty under the orders of the commander in chief, against an enemy invading the territory, or shall refuse disobey or neglect the orders given by his officers, or any of them, in time of action, he shall be deemed builty of cowardice and desertion, and be heard, tried, and sentenced by a court-martial.
All officers shall be attentive to the forming, discipling, parading, and commanding their respective corps, and to such other duties as shall respectively bind them by this law, and by the orders from time to time to be given by the commander in chief.
If any officer shall be guilty of a breach of this law, or in any respect violate, or neglect his duty, he shall be heard, tried, and sentenced by a court-martial.
A court martial shall consist of not more than thirteen members, nor less than five, whereof one at least shall have rank superior to that of a captain.
A court-martial shall be appointed by the commander in chief, or the commanding officers of a regiment or battalion; but the commander in chief only shall have the power of approving and carrying into effect sentence of courts-martial, whereby the punishment shall be capital, or an officer cashiered.
Ar. St. Clair.
Saml. H. Parsons.
J.M. Varnum.
Want a million man march? Arrange it with your commander in chief " the corps shall be paraded for muster, exercise and review as the commander in chief may direct. "
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=0IGl3jR3yJEC&dat=17941018&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
and applies to lands northwest of the river Ohio.
Centinel of the North-Western Territories November 15, 1794
Chapter 1.
A LAW for regulating and establishing the Militia in the Territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, published at the city of Marietta, upon the twenty fifth day of July, in the thirteenth year of the Independence of the United States, and of our Lord one thousand severn hundred and eighty eight, by his Excellency Arthur St Clair, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief, and by the Honourable Samuel Holden Persons and James Mitchell Varnum, Esquires Judges.
All male inhabitants between the age of siteen and fifty, shall be liable to and perform military duty, and be formed into corps in the following manner.
Sixty four rank and file shall form a company. Eight companies shall form a battalion. Two battalions shall form a regiment.
There shall be appointed to each company, one captain, one lieutenant, one ensign, four serjeants, four corporals, one drummer and one fifer. To a battalion there shall be appointed, one lieutenant colonel, one major, and one adjutant. To a regiment one colonel.
The corps shall be divided into senior and junior classes.
And whereas in the infant state of the country, defence and protection are absolutely essential, all male inhabitants of the age of sixteen and upwards, shall be armed, equipped and accoutred in the following manner;
With a musket and bayonet, or rifle, cartidge box and pouch, or powder horn and bullet pouch, with forty rounds of cartidges or one pound of powder and four pounds of lead, priming wire and brush and six flints.
And whereas for securing the principles of defence and protection, it is necessary to be asembled upon certain times, and at certain places for examining and inspecting the arms, and accoutrements, and for discipling the men in a soldierly manner; And whereas the assembing of the members of community at fixed periods, conduces to health, civilization and morality, and such assembling without arms in a newly settled country, may be attended with danger – Therefore the corps shall be paraded at ten o’clock in the morning of each first day of the week, armed, equipped and acedurred as aforesaid, in convient places next adjacent to the place or places already assigned, or to be assigned for public worship; at other times and places, the corps shall be paraded for muster, exercise and review as the commander in chief may direct. And whereas in the present state of the territory it is necessary that guards be established; the commander in chief and the commanding officers of counties, and of smaller districts shall make such detatchments for guards and other military duty as the public exigencies may in his, or their opinion require.
Those who have born commissions, civil or military, in the service of the United States, or either of them, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and all such as have been graduated in colleges or universityies, shall compose the senior class. Males above the age of fifty shall be liable to military duty in cases of actual invasion only, and then at the direction of the commander in chief. Officers of civil government appointed by Congress or commissioned by the governour are exempted from the duties aforesaid.
If any male inhabitant shall neglect or refuse to appear at the fixed times and places of parade by this law established, he shall be fined in the sum of twenty five cents, unless he shall render an excuse to the satisfaction of the commanding officer of his corps. If any male as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to appear at such a time and place as the commander in chief shall specially direct, for muster, review and exercise, he shall be finded in the sum of fify cents, unless excused as aforsaid.
If any male as aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to appear upon the order of the commander in chief, or other officers as aforesaid, for guards or other ordinary military duty, or refuse to perform the same, he shall be fined in the sume of one hundred cents – which offences shall be heard and determined by the officers of the company to which the offender may belong, and upon conviction , a warrant of distress shall issue from the commander of such company, directed to either of the serjeants of the same requiring him to collect the fines aforesaid, and pay the same into the treasury of the town, city or county wherein the conviction shall have taken place, within twenty days next after issuing such warrant. For the second, and all succeeding offences in the cases before mentioned, the persons chared with having committed the same, shall be heard, tried and sentenced by courts-martial.
If any male inhabitant as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to appear and perform his duty under the orders of the commander in chief, against an enemy invading the territory, or shall refuse disobey or neglect the orders given by his officers, or any of them, in time of action, he shall be deemed builty of cowardice and desertion, and be heard, tried, and sentenced by a court-martial.
All officers shall be attentive to the forming, discipling, parading, and commanding their respective corps, and to such other duties as shall respectively bind them by this law, and by the orders from time to time to be given by the commander in chief.
If any officer shall be guilty of a breach of this law, or in any respect violate, or neglect his duty, he shall be heard, tried, and sentenced by a court-martial.
A court martial shall consist of not more than thirteen members, nor less than five, whereof one at least shall have rank superior to that of a captain.
A court-martial shall be appointed by the commander in chief, or the commanding officers of a regiment or battalion; but the commander in chief only shall have the power of approving and carrying into effect sentence of courts-martial, whereby the punishment shall be capital, or an officer cashiered.
Ar. St. Clair.
Saml. H. Parsons.
J.M. Varnum.
Want a million man march? Arrange it with your commander in chief " the corps shall be paraded for muster, exercise and review as the commander in chief may direct. "