6 - Exemption from military service.

§  6.  Exemption  from  military service. All such inhabitants of this  state of any  religious  denomination  whatever,  as  from  scruples  of  conscience may be averse to bearing arms, are to be excused therefrom by  paying  to  the  state  an  equivalent  in money; and the legislature is  required to provide by law for the collection of such equivalent, to  be  estimated  according  to  the expense, in time and money, of an ordinary  able-bodied militiaman.