The Grants, Concessions, and Original Constitutions of the Province of New-Jersey 135 (1752)
Abstract
[A]ll males from sixteen years old to sixty, having sufficient warning from the captain of each company, shall make their appearance in compleat arms, at the time and place appointed for disciplining of the said company, excepting magistrates, ministers, deputies, and constables...
Summary
Each town in the province must hold four annual militia training days, where all men aged sixteen to sixty—excluding magistrates, ministers, deputies, and constables—are required to appear fully armed. Failure to attend or arrive on time results in tiered fines used to support the company.
Law Text
III. *Be it enacted* that there shall be four training days in the year, in each town within this Province, viz. two in the spring, and two in the autumn; two between the middle of March and the last of May; two between the middle of September and the last of November; at which times all males from sixteen years old to sixty, having sufficient warning from the captain of each company, shall make their appearance in compleat arms, at the time and place appointed for disciplining of the said company, excepting magistrates, ministers, deputies, and constables, in default whereof, late coming at the time appointed, every such person shall pay by way of fine six pence, and for half a day’s absence, one shilling and three pence; and for total absence from the said training, shall pay two shillings and six pence; the same to be levied by way of distrant by warrant from the said captain, not exceeding two shillings and six pence, notwithstanding any act to the contrary; the fines to be for the use of the company.
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REQUIRED POSSESSION