Commonwealth v. Annis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of certiorari brought to quash the proceedings had before a justice of the peace for this county, at the suit of one Josiah Crediford, as clerk of a militia company, against the respondent Annis, for the deficiency of his minor son, Stephen Annis, Jun., in the arms and accoutrements required by law, and for which the justice imposed upon the respondent a fine of one dollar and fifty cents.
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This was a writ of certiorari brought to quash the proceedings had before a justice of the peace for this county, at the suit of one Josiah Crediford, as clerk of a militia company, against the respondent Annis, for the deficiency of his minor son, Stephen Annis, Jun., in the arms and accoutrements required by law, and for which the justice imposed upon the respondent a fine of one dollar and fifty cents. It appeared from the certified copy of the proceedings, that the said Annis, Jun., was enrolled, as a private soldier, some time in January, 1811, of which he was soon after notified; and…
1Opinion of the Court
* Per Curiam.
The statute of the United States, ' [ passed on the 8th of May, 1792, for establishing a uniform militia, in the first section, where provision is made for the enrolment of citizens, directs that persons enrolled shall be notified thereof, and that every citizen so enrolled and notified shall, within six months thereafter, provide himself with a good musket, &c. — By an additional act, passed on the 2d of March, 1803, every citizen, duly enrolled, is required to be constantly provided with arms, &.C., agreeably to the directions of the former act, from and after he *38shall be duly…
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