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1701-1703 211 (1701)

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An ACT Paffed by the Great and General Court
or Affembly of Her Majefty's Province of the
Mqffachtufetts-Bay in New-England; Begun and
Held at Boflon upon Wedneflay the Twenty
feventh of May, I702.
An AE   i Addit'on to the Al fbr Regulathe the Miltia, and               4 .
for Explanation of a Claife in the fad A,[.
H E I E A S in the Eniumeration of Perfons exempted from
Trainings, by the Act, Intituled, An Aff for Regulating of
the Militia, Perfons lame, or otherwife difibled in Body
W         (producing Certificate from Two able Surgeons ) are inclu-
ded: Ami whereas divers Perfons, fit and able for Service,
by corrupt and fallacious Means, do obtain fuch Certificates
from fome Praditioners in Surgery, in Elutfion of the Law,
and contrary to the true Intent and Meaning thereof, and thereupon prefume
to negled their Duty, and plead an Exemption, with Difregard to their Offi-
cers, having no orderly Difmiilion from them: For Remedy whereof, Be it
Enaded and Declared by his Excellency the Governor, Council, and Repre-
fentatives, in General Court aflembled, and by the Authority of the fiae,
That no Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, ftiall at any time hereafter, by Virtue iame Irran',
of any Certificate alrcady given, or to be given, by Two Surgeons, as afore- dIrrnI r1rg ,
faid, be excufed or exempted from bearing Arms, and attending Trainings, and TnIrnj&
other Military Exercifes and Duty, in the Troop or Company whereto they binn of tit-Ir
refpedtively belong, and are inlifted; or from Impreffes for Her Majefly's Ser- Omfln.
vice, unlefs for juft Caufe they firft obtain an orderly Difmiffion under the
Hands of the Comnmiffion Officers of tfich Troop or Company. And in cafe
they unreafonably refute the fame, then of the firft Field Officer of the Regi-
ment, whereof fuIch Troop or Company is Part; or of the Captain General or
Commander in Chief for the time being ; any Law, Ufage, or Cultom to the
contrary notwithilanding.
ACTS

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