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handle is hein.ssl/ssny0367 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF TIlE STATE OF NEW YORK PASSED IN TIE FIFTII SESSION OF TIIE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY OF TIE SAID STATE, BEGINNING TIlE NINTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1781, AND CONTINUED BY ADJOURNMENTS. CHAP. 1. AN ACT further to amend the laws relative to night watch and to repeal an act therein mentioned. PASSED the 6th of November, 1781. WhEREAS doubts have arisen concerning the fines imposed'for refusal Preamble. neglect or delay of night watch duty, and whether all the male inhabit- ants above sixty years of age residing within the district of the regiment commanded by Colonel Abraham Cuyler and those in the town of Schenectady are exempted from watching: in order therefore to re- move such doubts. Be it enacted by the People of the State of New York represented in Persons Senate and Assembly and it is hereby enacted by the authorit, of the same ,able to That no male inhabitant or resident above sixty years of age (ministers watchmen of the Gospel and such male inhabitants or residents in the said district as shall by a majority of the members of the corporation of the mayor aldermen and commonalty of the city of Albany in common council convened, be deemed personally incapable of watching and in such in- digent situations as not to be able to procure a substitute to serve in their stead, and such male inhabitants or residents in the said town as shall by a majority of the justices, residing in the said town, be deemed incapable and unable as aforesaid excepted) shall be exempted from watching in the district and town aforesaid; but every such male inhab- itant or resident shall be and hereby is subjected, in point of watching, to the same duties fines and forfeitures with the militia. That the mem- Command- bers of the said corporation and the said justices shall respectively no- tnofncer tbe no- tify the colonel or commanding officer of the regiment of the district fled of per and town respectively by a notice in writing of tie persons whom they onex- shall deem proper to exempt is aforesaid, and that in lieu of pecuniary

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