Listing

Persons listed, are to be carried before the next justice of peace or magistrate of any city or town and sworn. Persons, owning before the proper magistrate, that they voluntarily listed themselves, are obliged to take the oath, or suffer confinement by the officer who listed them, till they do take it. The magistrate is obliged in both cases, to certify, that such persons are duly listed; setting forth their birth, age, and calling, if known; and that they had taken the oath. Persons receiving in listing money from any officer, knowing him to be such, and afterwards absconding, and refusing to go before a magistrate to declare their a ent or di ent, are deemed to be in listed to all intents and purposes, and may be proceeded against as if they had taken the oath. See Attestation .