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An Act for the Regulation of the Militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (20 March, 1780), § 57, Penalty on Officers Misbehaving while on Parade; § 60, Rules and regulations, 12th rule.

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  • 1780
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§ 57 "...and if any non-commissioned officer or private shall, on any occasion of parading the company to which he belongs, appear with his arms and accoutrements in an unfit condition, or be found drunk or shall disobey orders or use any reproachful or abusive language to his officers or any of them ; or shall quarrel himself, or promote any quarrel among his fellow soldiers, he shall be disarmed and put under guard, by order of the commanding officer present, until the company is dismissed, and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding the price of ten day's [sic] labour, nor less than one day’s labour.

§ 60 "12th. No company or battalion shall meet at a tavern on any of the days of exercise, nor shall march to any tavern before they are discharged ; and any person who shall bring any kind of spiritous liquor to such place of training shall forfeit such liquors so brought for the use of the poor belonging to the township where such offender lives."

1780, PA, An Act for the Regulation of the Militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania § 57 & § 60


Thomas McKean, The Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Carefully Compared with the Originals : And an Appendix Containing the Laws Now in Force, Passed between the 30th Day of September 1775, and the Revolution : Together with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania, and the Articles of Confederation of the United States of America (Philadelphia, PA: Francis Bailey, in Market-Street, 1782), 365-366; 368. An Act for the Regulation of the Militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: § 57, Penalty on Officers Misbehaving while on Parade; § 60, Rules and regulations, 12th rule. Passed 20 March, 1780.

See also, The Selective Service System, Backgrounds of Selective Service: Military Obligation. The American Tradition a Compilation of the Enactments of Compulsion from the Earliest Settlements of the Original Thirteen Colonies in 1607 through the Articles of Confederation 1789, Ed. Arthur Vollmer, vol. 2 pt. 11 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1947), 97; 100.