This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... be relieved by the class next in numerical order, the relief to arrive at least two days before the expiration of the term of the class to be relieved, but nothing herein contained shall prevent the governor from employing and calling out part of any class, or any company or companies, regiment or regiments, without respect to this rule, whenever the exigency is too sudden to allow the assemblying of the scattered militia which compose the particular classes, and the services of the persons so called out shall be accounted as part of their tour of duty, and the pay of the militia in actual service shall commence two days before marching, and they shall receive pay and rations at the rate of fifteen miles per day on their return home. [Section XIX.] (Section XIX, P. L.) And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for any person called to do a tour of duty to find a sufficient substitute, such substitute being approved of by the captain or commanding officer of the company which he shall be offered to serve in. Provided always, That persons serving by substitute as aforesaid, if said substitute shall be called in his own turn into actual service before the term expires which he was to serve for his employer, that then the person procuring such substitute shall march in his said substitutes' turn, or be liable to pay his fine for neglect, which fine is to be recovered as other fines for neglect of serving are by this act directed to be recovered, and that sons who are not subject to the militia law may be admitted as substitutes for their fathers. [Section XX.] (Section XX, P. L.) And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when the militia, or any detachment thereof, are called out...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...and the said captain, master, owner or consignee may transport the cargo so redelivered, or any part thereof, from the lazaretto in lighters, which shall be permitted to receive the same, under such precautions as the board of health may adopt, to prevent a communication between the persons conducting such lighters and the ves sels, cargoes and persons under quarantine. And whenever the board of health shall have reason to apprehend that the health of the city will be endangered, by permitting any vessel, persons or cargo, coming from places infected or usually infected with the plague, to proceed to, or be lauded at the city of Philadelphia, they shall have full power and authority to detain and unlade the said vessel, and cause such measures to be taken as will be conducive to the purification of such vessel, and of the persons and cargo on board thereof. Provided always. That wine, rum, salt, spirits, molasses, sugar, mahogany, manufactured tobacco, dye wood, preserved fruits, and such other articles as the board of health shall by their general regulations specify and permit, hides, coffee, bedding and clothing, and putrifying substauces always excepted, may be unladen into lighters, and after remaining therein during so long a time as shall be directed by the board of health, may be conveyed in such lighters to the city of Philadelphia, subject to such exceptions, regulations and restrictions, with respect to the unloading, detention, ventilating, transporting and delivery thereof, as may be established by the said board of health, whose duty it shall be, in making such regulations, to prevent any personal intercourse between the lightermen conducting such lighters and the persons on board the ships or vessels, from which such goods, ..