MARCH 1781 -- 5th of COMMONWEAlTH
CHAP. III.
An act for ascertaining the number of militia in this state.
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the county lieutenant or commanding officer of every county in this commonwealth, be directed to transmit to the governour before the twentieth day of June, an exact account of the present numbers of their respective militias. That for this purpose, they call immediately upon the several captains or commanding officers of the respective companies in their several counties, for an exact list of each company, distinguishing all such as are under eighteen years of age. Any county lieutenant or commanding officer failing so to do, shall forfeit and pay ten thousand pounds weight of tobacco, and every colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, or commanding officer of a company, failing to return such list when called upon for it, shall forfeit and pay five thousand pounds weight of tobacco, to be recovered with cost, by bill, plaint, or information, in the court of the county where the neglect shall take place, and be applied to lessen the levy of such county. And it is farther enacted. That this act shall be forthwith printed, and sent by the executive to the county lieutenant or commanding officer of every county in this state.