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London, England, 1808-04-22 00:00:00

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TV-aWA .stLity4 BILL.

Lora Catmenikou's. Local Mitt': Bill having
ken printed; site *e• the oppoettinity of presenting.
au Abstract of it, sufficiendy minute tp convey to
our Readers full information conceedng all its sub,
stantial and effectite Clauses. It is emkla. ig A MI
for enabling his Majesty to- establish 'a permanent
Local Militia Force, under certain restriction*, for
the Defence of the Realm ;" and the prearrible states,
that the. objects of the Bill are expedient hs the pre-
lent circumstances of Europe.'
The first Clause enacts, That it shall be lawful for
$l3 Majesty to order, by warrant under his Majesty's
Sign Manual, that a permanent Local Militia Force
shall be ballotted and enrolled in Great Britain, ac-
cording to the provisions of this Act. .
The 241-Clause provides, That the number of melt
so ballotted and enrolled, shall not exceed such num-
ber as will, in addition to, and including the effective
Yeomanry and Volunteers, amount to times
the respective Quotas of Militia of such Counties, [six
times was the amount suggested by Lord Castlereagh.]
The 3d Clause—That when the number of effective
Yeomanry and Volunteers in any County shall be re-
duced by the discontinuing of any Corps of Yeomanry
sir Volunteers, Air absence or non-attendanie of any
Members, a number of Local Militiamen, equal in
amount to such deficiency, shall be forthwith ballotted
and enrolled under this Act,
4th Clause—That it shall be lawful for his Majesty
in any case in which more than one Regiment of Local
Militia is ordered to be raised in any County, to divide
such County, for the purposes of this Act, into such
number of divisions as there are regiments to be raised
in such County, regard being had to all circumstan-
ces of local convenience.
sth Clause is purely formal, and extends the powers
of the preceding Militia its to this Act.
6th Clause : -That the men to be raised, shall be
ballotted from the persons between the ages of (pro-
bably 18 and 95), returned in the lists now existing,
or which may hereafter be made for the raising of
the Militia ; and it shall be lawful for his. Majesty to
order the making out any new lists, and in such classes
as to age or otherwise, and in such form as may be
deemed expedient.
7th Clause enables any two Deputy Lieutenants,
&c. upon the examination of any person stating his
inability to serve from illness, /cc. on the certificate
of any physician, &c. to cause such pennon to be struck
out of the enrolment, and excused from fine and fur-
ther service.
Bth Clause : That no articled clerk or apprentice,
nor any poor man who has more than one child born
in wedlock, nor any person under the age of
who shall be of the height of or upwards, shall
be exempt from serving under this Act, notwithstan-
ding such persons may respectively be exempt from
serving in the Militia.
9th Clause That no person shall be exempt from
being ballotted or enrolled to serve under this Act in
the Local With, by reason of his having found any
mbstitute for the Militia, or having paid any fine for
the same.
1003,Clause contains the oath duly to serve. The
" Local Militia shall appear at some meeting to be ap-
pointed for that purpose ; and if on examination such
person shall be found able and fit for service, he shall
then and there take the following oath, (that is to say)
" i, it B. do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faith-
ful, and bear true allegiance to his Majesty King George; and
that I will faithfully serve in the Local Militia of
with% Great Britain, for the defence of the same, duling the
time of years for which I ant enrolled, unless I shall be
anotier discharged. So help me God."
And every etch person shall he then enrolled, to serve
in the. Local Militia of such county as a private
Local Militia Man, for the space of years.
114 h Clause : That if any person ballotted to serve,
shall,. after notice given, neglect to appear, he shall
forfeit a sum proportioned to.his annual income; and.
the payment of such fine shall exempt such person
from being ballotted and enrolled under this Act for
years, and no longer.
12th -Clause : That every person claiming to be
exempted from such service, upon payment of such
fine, shall sign a declaration of the amount of his
income before the Deputy Lieutenants, or produce
a certificate of the amount of such'income allowed
by the Commissioners, &c ; and every person who,
shall make any false declaration in relation to any
such claird shall forfeit for such offence the sum
of
13th Clause: That if any person ballotted to serve'
in the Local Militia shall enrol himself as a mem-
ber of any Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps, and
engage to serve therein at his own expence, and with-
out pay or allowance, and shall produce a certificate
ofhis having clothed, armed, and equipped himself,
according to the iegiilitiont of such corps, at his own
expence, he shall be remitted of such fines of
and shall be exempt from serving in the
Local Militia, so long as he shall continue an effec-
tive member of a Yeomanry or Volunteer corps; pro-
vided, that if such person shill not continue in
and be returned as an effective member of a Yeomanry
or Volunteer Corps, for the full period of
years, such person shall forfeit the amount of the
part of the fine so remitted as aforesaid, and be liable
to serve for the remainder of such term of
tears in the Local Militia ; provided, that no person
shall be liable to the payment of such fine, in any case
in which the corps in which he shall have so entered sl all
be discontinued, or if he shall have been prevented
from being returned an effective member of such
corps by reason of bodily infirmity.
14th Clause : That every person liable to the pay-
matt of any such fine, who shag refuie, upon requi-
sition, to declare upon oath, that he bath not, by any
PglicY,iqX promise of premium, or by engagement, in-
sured himself against such fine, and that no person
bath undertaken to indemnify him therefrom,. shall
in every such ease forfeit the amount of such
fine, and be compelled personally to serve in the said
local militia for the full term of years.
16th clause I That if any of the Quakers, or pep-1
plc called Unitas Fratrum, or United Brethren, be
ballotted under this act, shall produce a certificate of
their being such, it shall be lawful for the* Deputy
Lieutenants or justices to adjudge any such person to
pay such proportion of such fines as are by this Act
imposed on persons ballotted and not appearing, as to
sucl:. Deputy Lieutenants or Justices may appear to
be proper, according to the situation in life and pro-
perty of suck persoe ; to be levied by distress and

sale date goods and chattels of such person, at in
default thereof, he may be committed to prison.
16th Clause z That in all cases in which,such ballot
shall be so directed, and persons between the ages of
and years, and fit for military service, shall
voltinfariff ettrol themselves to serve under this Act,
to the number to be enrolled by ballot under any
apportionment in any such pariah, then no ballot
'shall take place in such parish ; and so proportion,.
!ally, if a part only of the requisite number should be
so enrolled.
17th Clause : That every person who shall volun-
tarily enrol himself to serve in the local militia, shall
be entit*d to and shall receive the sum of over
and above any sum to which he may be entitled, for
necessaries.
18th Clause : That it shall be lawful for any corps
of Yeomaniy or Volunteers, desirous of forming part
of the said local. militia, to transfer themselves, with
the approbation of his Majesty, to become part of the
local militia of the county, or division of the county, I
to which such corps shall belong, upon such terms'
and conditions as to his Majesty shall seem fit ;—and
all such Volunteers shall thereupon forthwith'be en-
rolled
without ballot in such militia, and be entitled
to the same bounty and allowance for necessaries as
lany other persons voluntarily enrolling themselves
previous to ballot under this Act.
19th Clause : That every Volunteer shall sign a
declaration, and make oath that he has not received!
•or been promised any sum of money; or any benefit
'or reward, other than the bounty of allowed
by this Act, in consideration of so enrolling himself
in the local militia ; and every local militiaman who
shall be convicted on any indictment, of having made'
any false declaration aforesaid, shall be liable to serve '
in the regular militia of the county, for the full period
of .years from the date of such conviction.
20th Clause respects the allowance for necessaries,
but blanks are left for all the sums.
21st Clause : That every person serving in the
cal militia shall be entitled to all such exemptions as
any effective Yeomanry and Volunteers are now en-
titled to ; and having served the full period of
'years „in the local militia, shall not be liable to be
again billoted to serve in the local militia.
22d Clause ; That if any person shall insure, or
take any money for the insurance of, or be in any
way concerned in any company for the insurance of
any person against the paying any money for the dis-
,charge of any fine or penalty for any person who may
be balloted to serve in the local militia, or for paying
any sum of money to any Volunteer to serve in dis,
charge of any county, district, or parish, beyond the
said sum of to be paid lo such Volunteer
as aforesaid under this Act, shall forfeit for every such
offence the sum of •
23d Clause ; That it shall be lawful for his Ma-
jesty to order that the local militia shall be formed
into regiments, 484 c. and shall have such proportion of
officers, &c. as are allowed by the Militia Acts in time
of peace : provided that no higher rank shall be given
than that of Lieutenant Colonel Commandant ; and
that all officers of the local militia raised shall rank
with the officers of his Majesty's other militia forces,
as the youngest of their respective ranks : provided
that every officer who shall have served in his Ma-
jesty's regular forces as a field officer shall be deemed
qualified to hold any commission in the local militia,
without any other qualification in respect of property
or otherwise.
24th Clause : That the local militia shall be called
out within their respective counties in each year, at
'such times, &c. for the purpose of being trained and
exercised as his Majesty shall direct, but not more than
days in the year, exclusive of days of arriving at
and departure from, and marching to and from the
place appointed for exercise, (for which extra days
the pay and subsistence allowed to his Majesty's forces
on march shall be allowed) ; and no such local mi-
litia shall he ordered to march for such training and
exercise out of the county within which any such lo-
cal militia shall have been enrolled.
25th Clause : That in all cases of actual invasion,
or the appearance of an enemy in force upon the coast
of any part, of the United Kingdom, it shall be law.
ful for his Majesty, by any Order in Council or Pro-
clamation, to draw out such Militia to be marched to
any part of Great Britain for the prevention of any
such invasion, or for the suppression of any rebellion
or insurrection, and to keep such Militia so embodied
for any period his Majesty may deem requisite, not
exceeding after the enemy shall hale been
,repelled, or driven from the coast, or after any such
rebellion or insurrection shall have been suppressed.
26th Clause : That such Local Militia, while train.
ing or embodied, shall be under the provisions of the
Mutiny Act and Articles of War,
27th Clause : That the Local Militia shall be en-
titled to the same privileges and allowances as other
Militia Forces when drawn out and embodied.
28th Clause.: That individuals of this Militia may
enlist into the Army, Navy, or M trines, except dur-
ing the periods of exercise, and that the vacancies by
enlisting shall be supplied as other vacancies.
29th and 90th Clauses, respect the tines to be paid
by the county or parish for the men found deficient,
parts of which are to be returned on their men being
found.
Slst Clause enacts, that the Commandants shall I
transmit to the General Quarter Sessions, certificates,
. and the Justices there assembled shall assess the dis-
trict for each man certified to be deficient.
s9d Clause: That all bounties and sums of money
paid for necessaries, and all expences, shall be paid
nut of such fines as shall he paid to the Clerks of Sub-
division Meetings ; and if such fines shall have been
remitted to the Treasurer of the county, then out of
the rates made for the relief of the poor of the parish
in which such bounties shall be payable, or expences
shall arise; and all sums of money so paid out of
such rates, shall be reimbursed to such' rates by the
Treasurer of the county, upon order made in that
behalf : provided, that If at the end of any Quarter
Session any such Treasirreed oily county shall have
advanced any money out of any such- county rates,
and it shall appear that such advance or any "Oar;
therea 'shall have arisen from the payment of any
money for necessaries under this Act, then all such
advances made for the F yrnent of necessaries shall
be reimbursed to such'lCiteisbter by the Receiver Ge-
neral of the county out' of any public money in his
hands as such Receiver General.
3.9 d Clause : That all fines shall be paid within
days iutA die haadi trie- Treasurer of the County ;