1886 N.Y. Laws 232
| dc.coverage.spatial | New York | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T17:31:34Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T15:22:31Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:32:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1780 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Required "all the male inhabitants (slaves excepted) of the age of sixteen years and upwards" to provide themselves with "a good musket or firelock" plus seventeen rounds of ammunition. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York represented in Senate and Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That troops shall be raised for the defence of the frontiers of this State for the ensuing campaign whenever the congress of the United States shall have declared that the said troops shall be paid and subsisted at the expence of the said United States: That the commanding officer of each regiment of militia shall cause just and exact lists to be made and returned of all the male inhabitants (slaves excepted) of the age of sixteen years and upwards resident within the district of the regiment. That the said commanding officer together with the other field officers of the regiment shall within one week after such returns shall be made meet together at such time and at such place within the district of each regiment as the commanding officer thereof shall appoint. That at this meeting the field officers or the major part of them shall divide the regiment agreeable to such return thereof into classes each class to consist of thirty five names, and if there should be a surplus of names after the regiment shall be so divided into classes the majority of the said field officers shall add the persons of which such surplus shall consist to the several classes and in such proportion to each class as they shall think proper so that the several classes shall with respect to estate and ability be as nearly equal as may be. That the commanding officer of the regiment shall cause to be delivered to a militia officer or to some other reputable person belonging in each class a list of the class. That each class shall after the expiration of fifteen days from the delivery of such list furnish and deliver to the commanding officer of the regiment at such time and at such place within the district of the regiment as he shall from time to time appoint, notice whereof shall be given to the person to whom the list shall be delivered, one able bodied man to be provided with a good musket or firelock cartouch box or pouch capable of containing seventeen charges of ammunition, a knapsack or havesack and a good blanket, to serve in the corps to be raised by virtue of this act for the defence of the frontiers until the first day of December next, unless sooner discharged. That if any class shall omit or neglect to furnish and deliver a man to be accoutred and provided as aforesaid, within the time or times for that purpose to be appointed, the commanding officer of the regiment shall thereupon convene the assessors of the ward town manor district or precinct wherein such class shall be at such time and place as the said commanding officer shall appoint. That the said commanding officer shall lay before the said assessors a list of the names of the persons belonging to such delinquent class. | |
| dc.description.summary | Troops for frontier defense will be raised once the United States Congress agrees to fund their pay and rations. Regimental commanding officers are directed to census all male residents aged sixteen and older (excluding slaves) and, alongside field officers, organize them into equalized classes of thirty-five based on wealth and ability. Within fifteen days of receiving their class list, each group must supply one fully equipped, able-bodied recruit—outfitted with a musket or firelock, standard ammunition pouch, knapsack, and blanket—to serve through December 1st. If a class fails to provide a recruit, local assessors will be convened to handle the delinquency. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4781 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://books.google.com/books?id=D8GwAAAAMAAJ&printsec= frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=snippet&q=%22every%20able%20bodied%20male%20person%20Indians%20and%20slaves%20excepted%22&f=false | |
| dc.subject | MILITIAS | |
| dc.subject | REQUIRED POSSESSION | |
| dc.title | 1886 N.Y. Laws 232 |