9 The Statutes at Large of South Carolina: Containing the Acts Relating to Roads, Bridges and Ferries, With an Appendix, Containing the Militia Acts Prior to 1794, at 691 (David J. McCord ed., 1841)
Abstract
The necessary arms were revised in 1791. Firearms were "a good musket and bayonet . . . or other sufficient gun." Edged arms were "a good and sufficient small sword, broad sword, cutlass or hatchet." Along with the usual cartouch box, powder horn or flask, shot bag or pouch, spare flint, and ammunition.
Summary
The Act required every freeman liable for militia service to attend musters with specified arms and equipment, including a musket and bayonet, ammunition, sword or hatchet, powder, shot, and spare flints. Those who failed to bring the required equipment faced a $2 fine, or a $0.50 fine for each missing item.
Law Text
III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every freeman of this State, liable to bear arms in any of the regimental battalions or companies of foot in this State, and who shall appear at any such regimental or battalion muster, or at any muster or review ordered by his Excellency the Governor, or at any company muster ordered in pursuance of this Act, or by virtue of the said Act of the twenty-sixth day of March, 1784, not provided with a good musket and bayonet and cartouch box, capable of containing at least twelve rounds of cartridges, or other sufficient gun, and a good and sufficient small sword, broad sword, cutlass or hatchet, and a powder horn or flask, capable of holding twelve rounds of powder, and a good shot bag or pouch capable of holding twelve balls of a proper size for his gun, and with three spare flints, shall forfeit and pay, for each and every such default, the sum of two dollars, or the sum of half a dollar for each article of arms or accoutrements herein before directed, to be assessed and levied on such defaulter in the manner in and by the said Act directed and appointed.
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MILITIAS, DEFINITIONS