8 The Statutes at Large of South Carolina: Containing the Acts Relating to Corporations and the Militia 485 (David J. McCord ed., 1841)
| dc.coverage.spatial | South Carolina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T17:19:27Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T17:13:33Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T13:24:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1794 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Organized its militia "in conformity with the act of Congress." The South Carolina militia was "every citizen who shall, from time to time, arrive at the age of eighteen years." It excluded "all persons under the age of eighteen, and above the age of forty-five years." Additionally, "all free white aliens or transient persons, above the age of eighteen and under the age of forty-five years, who have resided or hereafter shall or may reside in this state for the term of six months [were] subject and liable to do and perform all patrol and militia duty which shall or may be required by the commanding officer" of the district." The required arms were the same as the federal Uniform Militia Act. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | I. Be it therefore enacted by the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this Act, the whole of this State shall be divided into two divisions, and to each division there shall be a major-general; one of which divisions shall comprehend the districts of Charleston, Georgetown, Beaufort, Cheraw, Camden, and Orangeburg, except the Dutch Fork, between Saluda and Broad rivers; and the other shall comprehend and include the districts of Ninety-six, including the Dutch Fork between Saluda and Broad rivers, Washington and Pinckney; and in the first division there shall be five brigades; one for Charleston district, except Colleton county regiment; one for Beaufort and Orangeburg, including Colleton county regiment; one for Georgetown; and one for Cheraws, and one for Camden district. In the second division there shall be four brigades, one for Abbeville and Edgefield counties, one for Laurens and Newberry counties, including the Dutch Fork, one for Washington district, and one for Pinckney district. And that as soon as the Governor or Commander-in-chief of this State shall be informed of the organization and arrangement of the militia regiments of this State, agreeably to the provisions made by this Act, he be, and is hereby, authorized and required to issue his proclamation, notifying the same, from and immediately after which the militia commissions of all such persons as shall not be re-elected and confirmed in the rank and grade they may hold under the laws of this State, shall be vacated; but that every person who shall be re-elected and confirmed in such commission as he holds in the militia of this State, shall retain such commission, and take rank from the date thereof. X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every captain or commanding officer of a company shall enrol every citizen who shall, from time to time, arrive at the age of eighteen years, or come to reside within his beat, and without delay notify such enrolment to such citizen so enrolled, by some non-commissioned officer of the company, who shall be a competent witness to prove such notice; that all disputes that may happen with respect to the age or ability of any person to bear arms, shall be determined by the captain or commanding officer of the company, with a right of appeal by the person who may conceive himself aggrieved, or by any other person belonging to the company, to the lieutenant-colonel or commanding officer of the regiment. XXI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every free white man of this State, liable to bear arms in any of the regiments, corps, companies or troops in this State, who shall appear at any regimental or battalion musters, or at any company muster, ordered in pursuance of this Act, not provided, accoutred and armed, according to the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States," passed the 24th October, 1791, shall forfeit and pay, for each and every such offence, a sum not exceeding five shillings, or the sum of two shillings and four pence, for each article of arms or accoutrements required by the last mentioned Act; that all fines shall be inflicted on non-commissioned officers and privates by the judgment of the majority of the commissioned officers of the company in which the offender is enrolled; that a major-general shall be tried by a major-general to preside, and four brigadier-generals; but if the attendance of a major-general cannot conveniently be procured, then by five brigadier-generals; and, in such case, the eldest of such brigadiers to preside; that a brigadier-general shall be tried by one or more brigadier-generals, and four field officers; that a lieutenant-colonel shall be tried by an officer not under the rank of a lieutenant-colonel, and four field officers; that a major shall be tried by an officer not under the rank of a field officer, and four officers not under the rank of captain; that a captain shall be tried by an officer not under the rank of a field officer, and by four officers not under the rank of captain; and a lieutenant or ensign shall be tried by an officer not under the rank of a field officer, and four other commissioned officers; that all non-commissioned officers and privates be tried by not less than three commissioned officers. | |
| dc.description.summary | The Act organized South Carolina’s state militia into divisions, brigades, and regiments and required eligible citizens to be enrolled when they turned 18 or moved into a company’s district. It also required white men liable for militia service to appear at musters armed and equipped according to federal standards, with fines imposed for failing to do so. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/5280 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://books.google.com.fj/books?id=4EgUAAAAYAAJ | |
| dc.subject | MILITIAS | |
| dc.title | 8 The Statutes at Large of South Carolina: Containing the Acts Relating to Corporations and the Militia 485 (David J. McCord ed., 1841) |