2 Backgrounds of Selective Service, Part 4: Georgia Enactments 60-61 (1947)

XIX. And be it further Enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That in case any person who shall be obliged to bear arms, whilst the regiment, troop, or company, to which he shall belong, shall be under arms, or in array, shall neglect or refuse to fire his gun not exceeding six times each muster day, or shall wilfully neglect or refuse to do his duty, or to obey the other lawful commands of his officer, or if any such militia-man be drunk at the time of his exercising, the majority of the officers of the troop or company to which such person belongs, if the offence shall be committed in a single troop or company, or any two field officers of the regiment to which such person shall belong, if the offence shall be committed in a regiment, shall have full power and authority to inflict on the person so offending any pecuniary mulct not exceeding ten shillings Sterling; and in case any person shall be disobedient, or raise any mutiny or sedition in such regiment, troop, or company, under arms, or in array, such person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two pounds Sterling; and the said officers respectively, over and besides such pecuniary mulct, may imprison or confine the offenders until such time as the regiment, troop, or company, to which the offender shall belong, shall be discharged from bearing arms on the occasion for which they shall be assembled, and in case such offender shall be a servant, and shall not forthwith pay such fine as is last above said, the said officers respectively may inflict corporal punishment on such servant not exceeding twenty lashes.