s. 0. What number of supernumeraries s. 7. at head quar not in their own, or any adjoin one additional serjeant, and one additional corporal, and one additional drummer, for every 50 supernumeraries his majesty may order to be raised for such regiment, &c. And (by s. 6.) that it shall be lawful for his majesty to allow and order the raising by beat of drum for the militia of each county, over and above the quotas to which may be raised. the militia is to be reduced under the 51 Geo. 3. c. 20. G. B. (see Addenda I. P. 23.) such number of supernumeraries as his majesty shall direct, not exceeding one half of the amount of the quotas above mentioned. And it is a provision of this act, (s. 7.) that it shall be lawful for the colonels or commanding officers of regiments of militia, Militia-men and the commissioned and non-commissioned officers may be raised thereof, with the approbation of his majesty, to raise men ters, &c. though for the militia by beat of drum, at the head quarters of their respective regiments, or within 10 miles thereof, ing county. although such head quarters, or circle of 10 miles, may not be within the county to which the militia shall belong, or any adjoining county. This statute also regulates the number of men allowed to enlist from the militia into his majesty's regular forces, in proportion to the establishment of each regiment; and amends the several acts relating to the militia in other respects. The 53 Geo. 3. c. 20. E 53 Geo.3. c.20. extended the 51 Geo. 3. c. 20. G. B. (see Addenda I. P. 23.) to the corps of miners of Cornwall and Devon, and provides that the number who shall enlist in the regular forces, shall not exceed one-seventh part of the quota fixed by the 42 Geo. 3. c. 62. under which said corps was raised. But the 51 Geo. 3. c. 20. has been since repealed by the 56 Geo. 3. c 64. G. B. And the 53 Geo. 3. c. 132. 53 Geo.5.c.132. E. Corps of miners. U. K. U. K. has amended the 51 Geo. 3. c. 118. U. K. (see Militia of the lets. ADDENDA, I. P. 23.) by extending the services of the mi- Tower Hamlitia of the Tower Hamlets to all parts of the united kingdom. The 55 Geo. 3. c. 65. G. B. among other 55 Geo.5. c. 65. amendments of the laws relating to the militia of Great s. 5. G. B. Britain, provides, (s. 5.) that it shall be lawful for majesty to order that the militia shall be trained exercised for any period not exceeding 28 days in year, notwithstanding the 43 Geo. 3. c. 19. G. B. his His majesty may order mi and litia to be trained, &c. any for less than 28 And days in any it year. s. 9. Vice-lieutenant to have the tenants in case U. K. may order privy the quotas of counties, &c. in before the period for that purpose. it is also a provision of this act (s. 9.) which may be here noticed, that in any case of the illness or absence from power of licu- any county, &c. in Great Britain, of the lieutenant of their absence, thereof, it shall be lawful for the vice lieutenant, being authorized for that purpose by the lieutenant, to grant commissions to officers to serve in the militia of such county, &c. upon any vacancy which shall then happen, and to do all other acts which might, lawfully be done by 57 Geo.3. c. 57. the lieutenant. The 57 Geo. 3. c. 57. U. K. recites (s. 2.) that by the 42 Geo. 3. c. 90. G. B. the quotas of Ilis majesty the militia of the several counties, &c. were specified, council to settle and provisions made for ascertaining other quotas at pethe militia of riods specified in the said act; but that the quotas specified the several in said act had since continued, but may require to be Great Britain, regulated before the expiration of the next period spespecified in the cified in the said act; and therefore provides, that it shall 4: Geo. 3. c. 90. be lawful for his majesty to order, that the quotas of the several counties, &c. in Great Britain, shall be settled by. the privy council, in the manner specified in said act, if his majesty shall deem it necessary, before the expiration of the next period specified in said act for settling such quotas; and all such quotas when so appointed in pursuance of any such order of his majesty, shall be deemed to be quotas ascertained under the 42 Geo. 3. c. 90.; and all such proceedings shall be had thereon, for the purpose of giving effect thereto, and apportioning the same among the hundreds, &c. or other divisions of each county, &c. and all provisions contained in any acts relating to the militia shall be applied for giving effect thereto, as if such quotas had been settled at any period specified in the 42 Geo. 3. c. 90. And this act also provides (s. 4.) that What number of it shall be lawful for his majesty, by any order or orders serjeants, &c. may be retained signed by his majesty's secretary of state, to direct that the on permanent number of serjeants, corporals, and drummers to be re s. 4. pay, when not rice in actual ser- tained in the militia on permanent pay, when not in actual service, shall be as follows: one serjeant and one corporal to every 40 private men, and one drummer for every two companies, with an addition of one drummer for s. 3. India company for each flank company of regiments or battalions consisting of five or more companies, instead of the number fixed by the 42 Geo. 3. c. 90 & 91. And by s. 3. militia-men enlisting into the East India Company's service, Militia-men (as well as those who enlist them,) or becoming inrolled enlisting into E.as militia-men for any other parishes or places than those service, or be for which they shall be then inrolled and serving, are for other puriskmade subject to the provisions of the 42 Geo..3. c. 90. in c. how punished. relation to enlisting, &c. in his majesty's other forces, or being inrolled to serve in any other regiment of militia. coming inrolled U. K. or any car 57 Gec.5 c. 57. s. 1. U. K. 55 Geo.3.c.168. Offences.com. It is one of the provisions of the 57 Geo. 3. c. 57. His majesty U.K. that it shall be lawful for his majesty, by any order or the calling out may suspend orders in council, to suspend the calling out of the mili- the militia of tia of the united kingdom, or any part of the united part, in any kingdom, or of any county, &c. (to be specified in such order,) for the purpose of being trained and exercised in any year. The 55 Geo. 3. c. 168. U. K. provides, that every officer, non-commissioned officer, drummer and U. K. private man of the militia of Great Britain or Ireland, mitted while who shall, during the period of the regiment, battalion, or militia are assembled for corps to which he shall belong, being assembled for train- training, or eming and exercise, or being embodied, have been guilty of bodied, may be afterwards tried any offence against any act of parliament in force for the by court marpunishment of mutiny and descrtion, or any articles of1ial. war made in pursuance thereof, may be tried by any general or regimental court martial, consisting of officers of the militia, although such regiment shall have been dismissed after training, &c. or shall have been disembodied. Provided (s. 2.) that the charges against such officer, &c. 6. 2. shall have been made out and delivered within 6 months' Charges to be delivered within after the regiment, &c. shall have been dismissed after 6 months after training, &c. or disembodied. And this act (s. 3. & 4.) provides for the appointing of general courts martial, and regimental courts martial, for the trial of such offences. Courts martial how appointed. And by the 56 Geo. 3. c. 64. s. 4. U. K. all the provisions 56 Gec. 3. c.54. of the 55 Geo. 3. c. 168. supra, in relation to courts mar- s. 4. U. K. tial, and to the appointing, assembling, and attending of Provisions of courts martial, shall extend to the trial and punishment extended to offi of officers, non-commissioned officers, drummers or pri- litia of Great cers, &c. of mivate men of the militia of Great Britain, remaining on Britain, on permanent pay, permanent training, or beingdisembodied. s. 3. & 4. 55 Geo.3.c.168. s. 5. permanent pay, while the militia, to which they shall belong shall be disembodied. And by s. 5. all non-comDeserters from missioned officers, drummers, and private men of the tried whenever militia, who shall at any time have deserted from the apprehended. militia, shall be liable to be tried and punished for such militia may be U. K. Serjeants of sions, &c. as desertion, at any time thereafter, whenever they shall be apprehended, although no charges shall have been made out or delivered according to the 55 Geo. 3. c. 168. 54 Geo.5.c. 11. The 54 Geo. 3. c. 11. U. K. provides, that every serjeant of militia who shall, after the passing of this act, (6th militia may re- December, 1813) become entitled to his discharge, by ceive such pen- reason of the expiration of any period of service fixed shall be fixed by in any orders made by his majesty in that behalf, or shall kis majesty. have been discharged by reason of being an invalid or disabled, shall thereupon become legally entitled to receive such pension, allowance or relief, as shall have been fixed in any orders or regulations made by his majesty in relation to such cases, and for the payment whereof money shall have been voted by parliament, And by s. 5. all the clauses, &c. of the 46 Geo. 3. c. 69. (for making better provision for soldiers) shall be enforced in relation to any rules made for giving any pensions, &c. under this act, and the demanding, paying, receiving, recovering, and accounting for such pensions, &c. $. 5. Provisions of 46 Geo.3. c.69. applied to this act. The king or may order one P. 367. l. 31. The 52 Geo. 3. c. 29. I. provides, that lord lieutenant of the number of persons to be raised for the militia of fourth of militia any county, &c. in Ireland, by volunteering, it shall be to be composed lawful for his majesty, or for the lord lieutenant, &c. of 52 Geo. 3.c.29. Ireland, to direct, that such proportion as he shall think I. of boys. $. 2. Commander in chief of forces in Great Bri fit, not exceeding one fourth part of the whole number of persons to be raised in each year, for such county, shall consist of boys of the age of 14 years and upwards, and of such height as his majesty or the lord lieutenant, &c. may direct, who shall be raised by beat of drum And by s. 2. wherever any regiment, or part of a regiment of the militia of Ireland, shall be out of Ireland, all the powers, &c. which there shall be occasion to exer tain, to comcise by the commander in chief of his majesty's forces in mand, &c. Irish militia, when out of Ireland. Great Britain, may be exercised as they might be by the commander of the forces in Ireland, if such regiment, &c. I. Paymasters sions. &c. were in Ireland. The 53 Geo. 3. c. 48. I. also 53 Geo.3.c.48. amends the laws for raising and training the militia of Ireland, by enacting (s. 1.) that paymasters may hold sub- may hold subalaltern commissions. And by s. 2. such fines as shall be tern commisimposed on counties defective in supplying militia-men, s. 2. by virtue of the 49 Geo. 3. c. 120. s. 141. I. (see AD- Fines on counties levied by DENDA I. P. 25.) shall be levied under the warrant of the treasurer's wartreasurer of the county, as county presentments. But by s. 4. such fines shall not be imposed for any deficiency in volunteering for the original augmentation of any regi- imposed for any ment, nor for the supplying of any vacancies in the deficiency in volunteering for augniented number of any regiment, where the original augmentation, quota shall have been or shall be apportioned among the &c. rant. s. 4. Fines not to be ment to be re several parishes and districts in manner directed by the s. 6. 49 Geo. 3. c. 120. I. And this act provides (s. 6.) that Lord lieutenant the lord lieutenant of Ireland may order any augmented may order aug regiment or regiments of militia raised or to be raised in mented regiIreland, to be reduced to their original establishment. This duced. act (s. 3 & 5.) regulates the amount and application of the bounty of militia-men. The 54 Geo. 3. c. 179. I. has militia-men. amended the 49 Geo. 3. c. 120. I. so far as respects the 54 Geo.3.c.179. duty of quarter masters, and the appointment and removal of agents for the militia. S. 3. & 5. Bounty of 1. Quarter mas And the 57 Geo. 3. ters and agents. 57 Geo.3.c.104. no 1. or Number of serjeants, &c. any while regiment c. 104. I. provides, that after the passing of this act, vacancy which shall occur by the death, dismissal, removal of any serjeants, corporals, or drummers of regiment or battalion of the militia of Ireland, which shall be disem shall not be embodied and called out into actual service, shall be filled up until the number of such serjeants, &c. shall be reduced below the number of one serjeant and one corporal for every 30 private men, and one drummer to every company; and after such reduction by death, &c. as aforesaid, the ordinary establishment of every regiment, &c. while the same shall be disembodied, and shall not be called out into actual service, shall consist of one serjeant and one corporal to every 30 men, and one drummer to every company, with an addition of one drummer to each flank company; and if there shall then remain a surplus of 15 men and less than 30, every such regiment shall have one additional corporal for such surplus number of men; and when any such regiment shall bodied, &c. |