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An Act to reduce all Acts and clauses of Acts, in relation to the Patrol of this State, into one Act, and to alter and amend the same. 1839 87 (1839)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0317 and id is 1 raw text is: 87 In the Senate House, the twenty.first day of December, Dc-. 1839. in the year of our Lord, one thousand cight hundred and thirty-aine, and in the sixty-fourth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United Statesof America. ANGUS PATTERSON, President of the Senate. D. L. WARDLAW, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAPTER XIII. AN ACT TO REDUCE ALL ACTS AND CLAUSES or ACTS, IN RELA. TION TO THE PATROL OF THIS STATE, INTO OKE ACT, AND TO ALTER AND AMEND THE SAME. SEc. 1. Be it enacted, by the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in (Jeneral Assembly',and by the authority of the same. That all free white aliens, or trun- Aies alnd Ml- itary officers siont persons, above the age of eighteen, and under the age offorty. liable to Patol five years, who have resided or may hereafter reside in this State, (utY, &C. for the term of six months, shall immediately thereafter, he and are hereby declared to be subject and liable to do and perform all Pa- trol and Militia duty, which shall or may be required by the Con- manding Officer of the Beat or District, in which such alien or transient person shall reside, and be subject and liable to all pains and penalties inflicted by this Act, fur the non-performance of Patrol or Militia duty; any law, usuage, or custon, to the cuntrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding; that no oflicer, either of infantry, cavalry, or artillery, shall be excused from the performn. once of Patrol duty ; but every officer, either of cavalry, infantry, or artillery, and every private, shall be liable to perform Patrol duty in the Beat, under the Captain of said Beat, within which such officer or private resides: Provided always, that nothing con- tained in this Act, shall be construed to extend to or affect in any way or manner, the natural born citizen of any State, or poten. tate, who shall be actually engaged in war with the United States, or to compel such alien or transient person, to serve on patrol or militia duty, out of the particular District of the r1giment to which he shall or may be attached.

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