OHIO TERRITORY REV. CODE, ch. 1 (Childs & Swaine 1792) (Law Passed 1788).

"CHAPTER I.

A LAW for regulating and establishing the Militia in the Territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, published at the city of Marietta upon the twenty fifth day of July, in the thirteenth year of the Independence of the United States, and of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, by his Excellency Arthur St. Clair, Esquire, Governour and Commander in Chief, and by the Honourable Samuel Holden Parsons and James Mitchell Varnum, Esquires, Judges.

    ALL male inhabitants between the age of sixteen and sixty, shall be liable to and perform military duty, and be formed into corps in the following manner...

    ...And whereas in the infant state of a country, defence and protection are absolutely essential, all male inhabitants of the age of sixteen and upwards, shall be armed, equipped and accoutred in the following manner;
    With a musket and bayonet, or rifle, cartridge box and pouch, or powder horn and bullet pouch, with forty rounds of cartridges, or one pound of powder and four pounds of lead, priming wire and brush and six flints.
    And whereas for securing the principles of defence and protection, it is necessary to be assembled upon certain times, and at certain places, for examining and inspecting the arms and accoutrements, and for disciplining the men in a soldierly manner: And whereas the assembling of the members of community at fixed periods, conduces to health, civilization, and morality; and such assembling without arms in a newly settled country, may be attended with danger; Therefore the corps shall be paraded at ten o’clock in the morning of each first day of the week, armed, equipped, and accoutred as aforesaid, in convenient places next adjacent to the place or places already assigned, or to be assigned for public worship: at other times and places, the corps shall be paraded for muster, exercise, and review as the commander in chief may direct."