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PART I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT(Chapters 1 through 182)
TITLE V MILITIA
CHAPTER 33 MILITIA
Section 57 Military duty on election day; exceptions; penalty
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Section 57. Except while on duty under section forty, forty-one, forty-two or sixty, or in obedience to the commander-in-chief, no officer or enlisted person shall be required to perform military duty during the time when polls are open for an election in the city or town where he resides; and an officer parading his unit, or ordering it to duty, contrary to this section, shall be liable to trial and punishment as a court-martial may direct.
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