Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio 30-31 (1792)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Illinois [Territory] | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T00:04:47Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T01:35:16Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T01:30:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1788 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A Law for regulating and establishing the Militia in the Territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, Chapter VIII: Required all males aged sixteen and upwards to be equipped and accoutred with a musket, bayonet, rifle, cartridge box and pouch, powder horn and bullet pouch, with forty rounds of cartridges, or one pound of powder and four pounds of lead, priming wire, and brush with six flints. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Travelers exempt | |
| dc.description.lawtext | ALL male inhabitants between the age of sixteen and fifty, shall be liable to and perform military duty, and be formed into corps in the following manner. Sixty four rank and file shall form a company. Eight companies shall form a battalion. Two battalions shall form a regiment. There shall be appointed to each company, one captain, one lieutenant, one ensign, four serjeants, four corporals, one drummer and one fifer. To a battalion there shall be appointed, one lieutenant colonel, one major, and one adjutant. To a regiment one colonel. The corps shall be divided into senior and junior classes. And whereas in the infant state of a country, defence and protection are absolutely essential, all male inhabitants of the age of sixteen and upwards, shall be armed, equipped and accoutred in the following manner; With a musket and bayonet, or rifle, cartridge box and pouch, or powder horn and bullet pouch, with forty rounds of cartridges, or one pound of powder and four pounds of lead, priming wire and brush and six flints. And whereas for securing the principles of defence and protection, it is necessary to be assembled upon certain times, and at certain places, for examining and inspecting the arms and accoutrements, and for disciplining the men in a soldierly manner: And whereas the assembling of the members of community at fixed periods, conduces to health, civilization, and morality; and such assembling without arms in a newly settled country, may be attended with danger; Therefore the corps shall be paraded at ten o'clock in the morning of each first day of the week, armed, equipped, and accoutred as aforesaid, in convenient places next adjacent to the place or places already assigned, or to be assigned for public worship: at other times and places, the corps shall be paraded for muster, exercise, and review as the commander in chief may direct. And whereas in the present state of the territory it is necessary that guards be established; the commander in chief, and the commanding officers of counties, and of smaller districts shall make such detachments for guards and other military duty as the public exigencies may in his, or their opinion require. | |
| dc.description.summary | Required all males aged sixteen and upwards to be equipped and accoutred with a musket, bayonet, rifle, cartridge box and pouch, powder horn and bullet pouch, with forty rounds of cartridges, or one pound of powder and four pounds of lead, priming wire, and brush with six flints. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3750 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Laws_Passed_in_the_Territory_of_the_Unit/fyNRAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%20all%20males | |
| dc.subject | REQUIRED POSSESSION | |
| dc.title | Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio 30-31 (1792) |