Militia Bill Address and List of Senators

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[corresponds to page 1 of 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