An Act to Regulate the Militia of the Common-Wealth of Pennsylvania, §§ 9–10, 1776 Pa. Laws 22, 22–29 (John Dunlap 1777) (Law Passed 1777).
"An ACT to regulate the Militia of the Common-Wealth of Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS a Militia Law upon just and equitable principles, hath ever been regarded as the best security of Liberty, and the most effectual means of drawing forth and exerting the natural strength of a State: AND WHEREAS it is the indispensable duty of the Freemen of this Common-Wealth, to be at all times prepared to resist the hostile attempts of its[1] enemies, and more especially now, when America is invaded by a powerful army of British and Foreign Mercenaries, and the freedom handed down by our virtuous ancestors, may be in danger of being wrested from us, unless the strongest and most immediate efforts are made for its[2] support.
Be it enacted...
...That the following Rules and Regulations shall be the Rules and Regulations by which the Militia shall be governed...
...IX. Any officer or private man found drunk when under arms, shall be suspended from doing duty in the battalion, company or troop on that day, and be fined at the discretion of a General or Regimental Court-Martial.
X. Whatever sentinel[3] shall be found sleeping or drunk on his post, or shall leave it before he is regularly relieved, shall be fined at the discretion of a Court-Martial."
Laws Enacted in a General Assembly of the Representatives of the Freemen of the Common-Wealth of Pennsylvania, Begun and Held at Philadelphia the Twenty-Eighth Day of November, A.D. One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Six, and Continued by Adjournments to the Twenty-First Day of March, A.D. One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-Seven (Philadelphia, PA: John Dunlap, 1777), 22–29. An Act to Regulate the Militia of the Common-Wealth of Pennsylvania, §§ 9–10. Passed in General Assembly March 17, 1777.
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