1779 N.C. Sess. Laws 191-2
| dc.coverage.spatial | North Carolina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T17:17:00Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T15:34:34Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:42:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1779 | |
| dc.description.abstract | [E]ach Militia Soldier [had to] be furnished with a Good Gun, Shot bag a Cartouch Box or powder Horn, a Cutlass or Tomahawk. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Quakers, Menonists, Drunkards, and Moravians | |
| dc.description.lawtext | VII. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That each Militia Soldier shall be furnished with a Good Gun, Shot bag a Cartouch Box or powder Horn, a Cutlass or Tomahawk and every Soldier neglecting to appear at any Muster accoutred as above shall forfeit for every such offence ten shillings if at a General Muster and five shillings if at a private Muster (unless he can make it appear they were not to be procured) to be recovered as other Fines, and when any person shall appear to the Field Officers not possessed of sufficient property to afford such arms and accoutrements, the same shall be procured at the cost of the County and given to such persons on Muster Days or when ordered into service, which Guns and Acoutrements after such Service shall be returned to the Captain of the Company and by him carefully preserved for future Occasions; and whenever the Militia are called into Service they shall be allowed as follows, one Baggage Waggon or two Carts for the field Officers of each Regiment, two Waggons or four Carts for the Captains and Subaltern Officers of each Regiment and two Waggons or four Carts to each Company if necessary; each Waggon with four Horses to be allowed ten Dollars per Day, each Cart with two Horses to be allowed five Dollars per Day and to be found forage and shoes for their Horses, Ammunition Waggons at the discretion of the Brigadier General. The same rations to men and officers as allowed to the Continental Army, to be supplied by Commissaries appointed by the Brigadier. One Bell Tent to each Company, Entrenching Tools, Six Axes and a sufficient number of Camp Kettles to be furnished by the Commanding Officer of each Regiment and the pay of the men and Officers as follows, (to-wit): a Colonel per Day forty shillings, Lieutenant Colonel thirty-six Shillings, a major thirty-six Shillings, a Captain twenty-eight Shillings, Lieutenant twenty four Shillings, a surgeon thirty six Shillings, an adjutant twenty-four Shillings, an Ensign twenty shillings, a Serjeant twelve shillings, a Corporal, Drummer and Fifer ten shillings, each rank and file man eight shillings and that the non-Commisioned Officers and privates shall have and receive a Bounty of twenty Dollars for every month they shall be according to the Governor's orders on actual Duty, a Brigadier General five pounds and each Brigadier shall be allowed one Baggage Waggon. | |
| dc.description.summary | This law requires every militia soldier to be equipped with a good gun, a shot bag, a cartouch box or powder horn, and a cutlass or tomahawk, enforcing fines for those who appear at musters without these accoutrements unless they are unprocurable. If a soldier cannot afford the required arms, the county must supply them for use during musters or active service, after which the captain retrieves and preserves the weapons for future use. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4853 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | https://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.php/document/csr24-0005 | |
| dc.subject | MILITIAS | |
| dc.title | 1779 N.C. Sess. Laws 191-2 |