Volume 3
Public Law 16–XCVII
to establish an uniform mode of discipline and field exercise for the militia of the United States.
Approved May 12, 1820
Statutory text
An Act
to establish an uniform mode of discipline and field exercise for the militia of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
Act of March 2, 1821, ch. 13, sec. 14.
The system of discipline and field exercise observed by the regular army to be observed by the militia.
States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the system of discipline and field exercise which is and shall be ordered to be observed by the regular army of the United States, in the different corps of infantry, artillery, and riflemen, shall also be observed by the militia, in the exercises and discipline of the said corps, respectively, throughout the United States.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That so much of the act of Congress,
The Baron de Steuben’s rules and discipline.
Act of May 8, 1792, ch. 33, sec. 7.
approved the eighth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, as approves and establishes the rules and discipline of the Baron de Steuben, and requires them to be observed by the militia throughout the United States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, .