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[QUOTE]Originally posted by glassman: [QB] statute in New Hampshire‟s 1716 compilation ordered “That all Male Persons from Sixteen Years of Age to Sixty, (other than such as are herein after excepted) shall bear Arms ... allowing Three Months time to every Son after his coming to Sixteen Years of A ge, and every Servant so long, after his time is out, to provide themselves with Arms and Ammunition.... That every Listed Souldier and Housholder, (except Troopers) shall be always provided with a well fix‟d, Firelock Musket, of Musket or ******* - Musket bor e,... or other good Fire - Arms, to the satisfaction of the Commission Officers of the Company... on penalty of Six Shillings for want of Such Arms, as is hereby required....” [emphasis in original] Similar requirements were imposed on cavalrymen. xxix New Jersey‟s 1703 militia statute was similar, requiring all men “between the Age of Sixteen and Fifty years” with the exception of ministers, physicians, school masters, “Civil Officers of the Government,” members of the legislature, and slaves, to be me mbers of the militia. “Every one of which is listed shall be sufficiently armed with one good sufficient Musquet or Fusee well fixed, a Sword or [Bayonet], a Cartouch box or Powder - horn, a pound of Powder, and twelve sizeable Bullets, who shall appear in t he Field, so armed, twice every year....” xxx [/QB][/QUOTE]
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