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![handle is hein.ssl/ssct0375 and id is 1 raw text is: MAY SESSION, 1812.
CHAP: I.
An Act relating to the Military Force of this
State.
BS E it enacted by thie oivenor and Council and
.§ , ouse oqf Representatek in General Court
ssaemblrd, That the Captain-General he rnd he is hereby Captain.Gene-
empowered to designat bal ges of bffice for the different ral may desig;
grades of officers, which badges, And none other, shall be hate badges.
worn by the officers to whom they respectiely belong
at all times when stwh officers are dreased in uniforih,
and are performing military duty ; and the Captain- May alter uni-
General may make such alterations in the uniform of form.
the militia as he shall think proper at any time before the
rising of the General Assembly in October next.
S 2. And be itfurther enacted, That all general offic- What officers
era and their staff; the Adjutant-General and Quarters shall .do iluty
Mater-General, field officers of infantry and irtillery, and on horse-batv.
adjutants and quarter-masters of regiments, shall do duty
on horse-back ; chaplains, paymasters and surgeons may.
on days of general review appear on horse-back ; and all
etherofficers of infantry and artillery shall do duty on foot;
S 3. And be it further enacted, That all pe-rsons not in- Foreign sttw
habitants of this statel who shall come to reside. in this dents not to
state, for the purpose of qualifying themselves for a col- be enrolled..
]egiate education, or for entering into either of the learn-
ed professions, while they shall be under the cart of their
respective instructors, shall not be inrolled for the pur-
Fose of doing military duty : provided that such exemp- Proviso.
lion shall in no case be of longer continuance than two
years.
, § 4. .nd be it furthe r t ecti 1h that part of the,
tenth section of the VA%_pjNpr of-U* -ct to which this
is, an addition, wlCh a tfrorizes th fiJd and comihlis-
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