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An Act Additional to an Act to Organize, Govern and Discipline the Militia of This State, ch. 276, § 5, 1839 Me. Laws 421, 424 (Smith & Robinson 1837).

  • Year:
  • 1837
Category:

Felons, Foreigners and Others Deemed Dangerous By the State, Militia Regulations, Race and Slavery Based,

Jurisdiction:

State,

“…SECT. 5. Be it further enacted, That no idiot, lunatic, common drunkard, vagabond, pauper, nor any person convicted of any infamous crime, nor any other than white, able-bodied, male citizens, shall be eligible to any office in the Militia; and whenever it shall appear to the Commander-in-Chief, that any person thus ineligible has received a majority of votes cast at any election of Officers, he shall not commission him, but, with the advice and consent of the Council, shall declare said election null and void, and appoint some person to fill the vacancy…”

Public Acts of the State of Maine, Passed by the Seventeenth Legislature, January Session,1837 (Augusta, ME: Smith & Robinson, 1837), 424. Chapter 276—An Act Additional to an Act to Organize, Govern and Discipline the Militia of This State, § 5. Approved by the Governor March 28, 1837.

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