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be liable and subject to any law or laws now in force, or hereafter to 
be made, respecting or against aliens. 
XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
so much of the said Act as directs that any Body or Detachment of 
Militia, which may be called out by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, 
or Person administering the Government, shall and may be detained ou 
such service, for and during the space of six months at one time, and 
no longer, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. 
XVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
at the expiration of six months, from the time of any such Detachment 
being called out as aforesaid, one third of the men of such Detachment 
shall be selected by ballot, and if relieved, by an equal number of men, 
shall be discharged, and at the expiration of seven months from the 
time of calling out such Detachment, another third shall be selected, 
and if relieved, discharged in like manner, and at the expiration of 
eight months, the remaining third, if relieved, shall be discharged. 
XVII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
it shall and may be lawful to and for any Colonel or other Officer Com- 
manding any Regiment, Battalion, or Company, and he is hereby re- 
quired to call out his Regiment, Battalion, or Company, whenever he 
shall be directed so to do, for the purpose of being Inspected or Reviewed, 
by any Inspecting Field Officer of Militia, or other Field Officers of 
the line, who may be sent for that purpose; and that Lieutenant Col- 
enels in his Majesty’s Army, serving with any part of the Militia in 
this Province, shall command all Militia Officers whatever, any thing 
in the said in part recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding. 
XVIII. ‘And be it furtier enacted by the authority aforesaid, 
That every Militia man whose services may be accepted of in any volun- 
teer Corps, now or hereafter to be raired, shall be exempted from serving 
as a Militia man under this or the before mentioned Act, whilst he 
shall belong to any such Corps, as aforesaid, and also that every person 
serving in any flank Company, shall not be liable to any personal Arrest 
on any civil Process, or to serve as Juror, or to perform duty asa 
Town, or Parish Officer, or Statute labour on the High-ways, during 
the time he shall continue in such flank Companies, any law to the con- 
trary in any wise notwithstanding. 
XIX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
any Non-Commissioned Officer or Private Militia-man, who in any 
engagement with an enemy, or by any accident or casualty which may 
cecur while on, or performing any duty in actual service, shall be killed, 
and shall leave a Widow, or Child or Children lawfully begotten, his 
said Widow shall be entitled to receive during her widowhood, and in 

