78 Proceedings of the Conventions of the Province of Maryland, 1774-1776, at 20 (1836); see also 1777 Md. Laws ch. 17
Abstract
Required "[t]hat every able bodied effective freeman within this province,
between sixteen and fifty years of age . . . enroll himself in some company
of militia." Further retained the new maximum of 50 years
and excluded non-whites.
Description
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MILITIAS