LOIS ET ORDONNANCES ANTÉRIEURES A L'UNION

Ordonnance de 1777 0) (Extraits)

AN ORDIN4NCE for rejrulatinjt the militia of the province of Québec, and rendering it of more gênera) utility towards the préservation and security thereof.

WHEREAS his excellency the captain gênerai and governor in chief of this province is, by virtue of his majesty's commission under the Great Seal of Great Britain, empowered to levy, arm, muster, command, and employ ail persons within the province, and, as occasion shall serve, them to march or transport from one place to another, for the purpose of resisting and withstanding of ail enemies, pirates, and rebels, both by Iand and by water; which commission, in the absence of the captain gênerai, the lieutenant governor, or commander In chief, for the time being, is authorized to exécute : — AND VVHEREAS the well ordering and training of the said militia, may hereafter be of great use towards preserving and secnring the province from ail hostile invaders thereof, BE IT ENACTED by the captain gênerai and governor in chief of the province, by and with the advice and consent of the législative council of the same, THAT