The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-05-31 00:00:00

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TUE rotEoWING Ate THE FRITIedAL CEAu•Es or i
A 1:11.L rOE,ESUEE SPEEDILY CoMPLET;NG Tait.i
mILITti, OF GREAT-BRITAIN, FAi,rn UNDI.II. ~ .i
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TWO ACTS, PASSEL) IN THE FOATV-Si.COND YEAa•
Or Tut REIGN Or His PaFSENT MAJESTY ;_AND
rOa AMENDING THE SAID •CTS.
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rlind be it farther enacted, That all Private Ali- st
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' litie Men who shall have so made &faith, or dc-
serted,. or absented themselves from duty as Arm-
, %Aid, and who shall ieturn in obedience to any pro-,
t clamation• of his Majesty, shell remain with the
) regiment,. battalion, corps, or independent com-
pany to which they shall belong, notwithstanding
theseme shall have been completed to its full num-
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bete and shall be considered es eupertumerer:cs,
6 and shell be carried to the account of the parish, .1?, .-
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tything; or place, for which they .thall have been 4
's enrolled to serve, either for the purpose of making . l ,f
part of the quota of the Supplementary Mi itia, to ,
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, be raised by any such parish, tything, or place, tins i ,
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der the said recited Ads, and of any proclamation
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of his Majesty for that purpose, or. supply ;try'
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future vacancies that may arise among the men, to ,
4 be provided bv•such parish, tything, or place.
And be it 'further enacted, That no seaman or
is seafaring man shall hereafter be enrolled in the Ali- •
litia of Great-Britain, either as a balloeted man, sub-
- stitute, or volunteer; and if any such eisolment shall . ,
take place, the same shall be wholly void, and the
d person so enrolled shall forthwith be discharged and
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1Y given up to serve in his Majesty's navy ; and every
seaman or seafaring man, now saving in the Mili-
tia, shall be discharged and given up to his Majes- . :!!, '
- ty's navy ; and his Majesty's Lieutenant and De-
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puty Lieutenants respedively of the county, riding,
-o• stewartry, city, or place, to which the regiment, . 44'
battalion, corps, or independent company from
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Which such private men shall be discharged dolt
et belong, and also the colonel or other commandant
of such regiment, battalion, corps, or independent i ,
- company, and every other commissiones! officer duiv
*I- euthoi ized by the colonel or other commandant of
such regiment, battalion, corps, or independent
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company, shall be and eech of them is hereby em- ,
r., powered, by beat of drum or otherwise, to raise - .
volunteers from time to time to be enrolled as pri-
vats men in such regiment, battalion, corps, or in-
L" *pendent compaay, in the room of such private
es men as shall from time to time have been discharged •
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- ;n pursuance of this Aft ; and for every may. .its.. - • .
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8 charged from any regiment, battalion, codas, or
independeet company of Militia, in pursuance of
" -his Ait, .he caenel or other commandant a: such
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:eginient, battalion, corps, or independent corn- . i
Ind veiny, shall be entitled to receive, in the mane i
uer hereinafter mentioned, the sum of
to be applied in providing I •
de other private men, to replace the. number se dis-
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charged ; and the officer of die navy. or person ap-
pointed to receive any man so discharged, who shall
be so delivered up for the, navy as aforesaid, shall •
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G respectively deliver to the colonel or other cum- ' •
mandant of the regiment, hattalicin, corps„ or in. s
dependent company, for which such men were dis-
charged,. a certificate under the hand and, seal of •
,tich officer of the navy respectively, specifying the : /
names of the men so delivered as aforesaid; which
certificate shall be attested by the colonel or other '
rem commandant, or adjutant, of the said regiment, •
battalion, corps, or independent company of Mai-
tia ; and such Certificates being transmitted to the
Receiver of the Lind Tax of or for the county or • '
LI. riding to which the _regiment, battalion, corps, or
ate independent company atoresaid sloth belong, shall
,ong entitle such colonel, or other commandant, to the
payment of the sum of for
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every man specified in such certificate, to be applied
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:a'•:— for the purposes before-mentioned ; and every such
i!— Receiver shall be and is hereby empowered and re-
l."- (piked, on demand made and produetion and de-
rte- livery of such certificate, to pay the said sums out
se of any monies in his hands of the public rates, taxes, I
~ of or assessments, taking the receipt of such colonel, Si
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or other commandant, for the same ; and all sums
reet,
cf money so paid on account of the men enlisted in
any such regiment, battalion, corps, or indepertd-
lAN eat company of Militia, shall be carried to the ac- .. ;
sing count of the Treasurer of the Navy, and upon pro- • , 1.
bu" dudtion and deliver yof Such certificates and receipts " IL,' 1
at the Navy-Office, shall be immediately duly paid V
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by such Treasurer of the Navy.
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And be it further enacted, That whenever his
Majesty shall issue his proclamation for levying and
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ans- enrolling the Supplementary Militia, the leputy
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; lieutenants shall ballot for all men to be enrolled
etes, •
tor the Supplementary Militia out of the lists al-
ready returned for the b•.illotting of the Militia un-
tino. der the said recited ABs, without making any new .
lists, unless it shall appear to them in particular
~ es. cases to he absolutely necessary for the levying such i
lonr, Supplementary Militia, and without making
,any
sea- other alterations in the before-mentioned lists, than . •
, the necessary and- proper amendments of such lists,
hug- , according to the provisions of the said recited APRs,
tons save and except as to the:inseeting therein men un-
der the height of
d, in And be it further enaetell; 'hat when any Sup-
i. - plementary Militia shell .bes by nil), proclamation •
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. of his Majesty, ordered to he raised and enrolled
nted, under the aid teas, it shall be lawful for the re-
-speitive Depiny Lieutenants, and they are hereby '.
'T*4l4.• required to enroll every man liable and fit to serve I
yin, in the Militia, who is-of .the full height of • i /
,or upwerds; any thing in the saiki ,
na • ofl
, recited Ads to the contrary notwithstanding.
DU141.. Provided always, and be it farther enaaed, That
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~ it shall be
lawful for his. Majesty to, cause the said Supple- ~
eta,.reta,.'. d n'si.
:en., mentary Militia to be rai.ecror enrolled, or drawn
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itege, oat and embodied as aforesaid, during ally prom- „
glitiCm or • adjonrnment of Parliament, without is-
mete • i
, 4K,. su4kganj- Kochimation for.the., meet* of. Parlia-
i) it
• . mellt: Avithin fourteen days, according to the tiro-
( je. visioris'of theos-ald re cited foils; any'thing in 'the . ,11 i
coney, said Ad contained to the coatrary notwithstand- , ,
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