...restrictions were placed upon the president's action. First, no militiaman could be "compelled to serve more than three months, after his arrival at the place of rendezvous, in any one year," and second, the militia so called forth might not be continued in service longer than "thirty days...

...that no officer, non-commissioned officer, or private, of the militia, shall be compelled to serve more than three months after his arrival at the place of rendezvous, in any one year." — Callan, p. 100. This law was still in operation in 1861 when its inconveniences were seriously...

...declares, that a militiaman called into the service of the United States, shall not be compelled to serve more than three months after his arrival at the place of rendezvous, in any one year. The 8th section of the act of the 18th of April. 1814, declares, that the militia, when called into...

...declares, that a militiaman called into the service of the United States, shall not be compelled to serve more than three months after his arrival at the place of rendezvous, in any one year. The 8th section of the act of the 18th of April, 1814, declares, that ' the militia, when called into...

...called by the national authority should be compelled to serve more than three months after reaching "the place of rendezvous" in any one year "nor more...due rotation with every other ablebodied man of the same rank." Like selective service, of which the Minute Men were an early example, rotation is another...

...Large 424, Annals, IV, 1509, limits service to "no more than three months after his [the militiaman's] arrival at the place of rendezvous, in any one year,...due rotation with every other able-bodied man of the same rank in the battalion to which he belongs." Sec. 2, ibid., provides that "the use of militia so...

...more than a maximum of three months in any one year, and no single individual would be burdened any more "than in due rotation with every other able-bodied man of the same rank."23 More importantly for our purposes, the 1792 Act provided that citizens from whom militia...

...noncommissioned officer or private of the militia shall be compelled to serve more than three months in any one year, nor more than in due rotation with every other able- ( bodied man of the same rank in the battalion to which he belongs. [743: p. 1-264] And the February...

...2411. No officer, non-commissioned officer, or private of the militia, shall be compelled to serve more than three months after his arrival at the place...year, nor more than in due rotation with every other able bodied man of the same rank in the battalion to which he belongs. (2) 2412. Whenever the United...

...commissioned officer, musician, or private of the militia, shall be compelled to serve more than six months after his arrival at the place of rendezvous...year, nor more than in due rotation with every other able bodied man of the same rank in the regiment to which he belongs. 21st. That every citizen duly...