Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 12, ch. 16, § 73 (1840)
Abstract
Prohibited the enrollment of idiots, lunatics, common drunkards, vagabonds, paupers, nor any person convicted of any infamous crime, and anyone else besides white, abled bodied, male citizens into any office of the militia.
Summary
Prohibited the enrollment of idiots, lunatics, common drunkards, vagabonds, paupers, nor any person convicted of any infamous crime, and anyone else besides white, abled bodied, male citizens into any office of the militia.
Law Text
Sect. 73. No idiot, lunatic, common drunkard, vagabond, pauper, nor any person convicted of any infamous crime, nor any other than white, able bodied, male citizens, shall be eligible to any office in the militia; and whenever it shall appear to the commander in chief, that any person, thus ineligible, has received a majority of votes, cast at any election of officers, he shall not commission him; but, with the advice and consent of the council, shall declare said election null and void, and appoint some person to fill the vacancy. And whenever it shall appear to the commander in chief, that any person commissioned as an officer in the militia of this state, has become an idiot, lunatic, common drunkard or vagabond, he shall, with the advice of the council, forthwith remove him from office, and a new election shall be ordered to fill such vacancy.
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Categories
MILITIAS