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An Act for Supplying the Troops Ordered to Be Raised for the Special Defence and Safety of This Colony, with Necessary Fire Arms, 1775 Conn. Acts 1, 1–2 (T. Green).

  • Year:
  • 1775
Category:

Militia Regulations,

Jurisdiction:

Colonial,

An Act for supplying the Troops ordered to be raised for the special Defence and safety of this Colony, with necessary Fire Arms.

     Be it Enacted by the Governor, Council, and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the Authority of the Same...

    ...if it shall so happen, that a sufficient supply of Arms cannot be procured in the several Methods before directed, then sufficient Arms to make good the Deficiency, shall be impressed, completely[1] to arm and equip said Inhabitants that shall so enlist[2] as aforesaid; the said Impress to be limited only to the Arms belonging to House-holders and other Persons not on the Militia Roll: And that every Person from whom any Gun shall be impressed as aforesaid, shall be paid for the Use of such Gun the Sum of Four Shillings; and in Case of Loss shall be paid the just Value of said Gun, deducting the Sum of Four Shillings, aforesaid.

[1] Spelled “compleatly" in original source document.
[2] Spelled “inlist” in original source document.

An Act or Law, Passed by the General Court or Assembly of His Majesty’s Colony of Connecticut, Holden at Hartford, by Special Order of the Governor of Said Colony on the 1st Day of July, A.D. 1775 (New London, CT: T. Green, 1775), 1–2. An Act for Supplying the Troops Ordered to Be Raised for the Special Defence and Safety of This Colony, with Necessary Fire Arms. Passed July 1775.

Original source document from LLMC: https://llmc.com/docDisplay5.aspx?set=99890&volume=1775&part=071

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