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5183. MILITIA, Classification.—[further continued].

The session before the
last I proposed to the Legislature the classification
of the militia, so that those in the
prime of life only, and unburthened with
families, should ever be called into distant
service; and that every man should receive
a stand of arms the first year he entered
the militia. * * * It will prevail in time.—
To Mr. Coxe. Washington ed. v, 58.
(W. 1807)