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The Charlotte Journal
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
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Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont have abolished compulsory militia drills. Massachusetts appropriated $50,000 annually for voluntary service by up to 10,000 militia members. Maine repealed drill laws 10-11 years ago, retaining enrolment. Vermont recently followed suit with enrolment substitution.
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Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont have abolished the compulsory drills. In Massachusetts the sum of fifty thousand dollars per annum has been appropriated to any number of the old militia, not exceeding ten thousand, at the rate of five dollars each for voluntary duty a certain number of days in every year.
In Maine the system of militia drills was entirely abolished some ten or eleven years ago, when all laws requiring that useless service were repealed that retaining the militia system, simply a continued enrolment of all that would be bound at her call to come forth for the support of her laws or for the defence of her soil.
Vermont, at the recent session of her Legislature, has followed the example of Maine. She passed an act repealing all laws that heretofore required militia drills, and substituted merely an enrolment, as for jury purposes, of all that would, under the old system, have been liable to militia service.
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Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont
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compulsory militia drills abolished in all three states; massachusetts: $50,000 annual appropriation for voluntary duty by up to 10,000 at $5 each; maine: drills abolished 10-11 years ago, enrolment retained; vermont: recent repeal of drill laws, enrolment substituted.
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Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont abolished compulsory militia drills. Massachusetts funds voluntary service. Maine repealed drill laws 10-11 years ago, keeping enrolment for defense. Vermont's recent legislative session repealed drill requirements, replacing with enrolment like jury duty.