Militia Bill Address and list of Senators, 1813

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[report of the Committee after attending the Legislature of Ohio]

    We of the Committee to attend the Legislature

    of this State with the Memorial having perform
                      	in company with two Friends from S.Caro
    =ed our appointment  do report- That we

    presented it where it was respectfully read and at

    each of the respective Houses in course a select

    committee was appointed to take the subject into

    consideration and if any way could be devised for our

    relief to report the same.  Before this Committee and

    such of the members as were disposed to attend the

    interview we endeavoured to explain the nature

    of the principles of Truth as professed by us as a

    religious society and the grounds of Our Testimony

    against War and also attended the reading and 

    passing into a law, a new Malitia bill

    entitled an Act for disciplining the Malitia bill

    although we did not obtain the relief that would

    be desirable yet their respect for Our society

    induced them to ameliorate such parts of the 

    Bill as more immediately respected us in

    its Operation as far as they thought consistant

    with the Constitution and safety of the state; which

    in the present calamitous state of the nation so

    widely differs from Our view of the subject that

    we think it may not be a miss to recommend

    to the Quarterly Meeting, to keep in view

                             This important concern

    so as to improve a more favourable opportunity for