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 Ah Act to regulate tlil^^!B|iUtia of this Province, and to 
 repeal the Acts novir in force for tliat purpose. 
 
 WHEREAS it is eOrpedicnt to repeal the Acts relative to 
 Jhe Militia of this Province, with a view to the 
 amendment and aduptutiori to the actual position and cI' 
 cumstiincc9 of the Country, and to their re-enactment aa 
 ^^\ amended : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's INfost 
 '.5^ Excellent Majesty, by and with tlie advice and consent of the 
 „-^> .^ kLegislutive Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the 
 ■5?yProvince of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of 
 i-^t and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of 
 i'\^/^ the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and 
 intituled, An Act to re-unite the ProviniTS of Upper and Lower 
 Canada, and for the (rovcrnment of Canada, and it is hereby 
 enacted by the autlwrity of the same, as follows : " a 
 
 * I. The Act passed in tlie ninth year of Her Majesty's Reign, 
 and intituled, An Act to repeal certain Laws therein mentioned, 
 to provide for the Initler defence of this Province, and to regulate 
 the Militia thereof ; and the Act passed in the Session held in 
 the tliirteenth and fourteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, 
 and intituled, An Act to continue for a limited time therein 
 mentioned, the Act for the better defence of the Province, and to 
 regulate the Militia thereof ; and the Act passed in the Session 
 held in tiie fourth and fifth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and 
 intituled. An Act to amend the Militia Law of that part of this 
 Province formerly constitutin<^ the Province of Upper Canada ; 
 and the Act passed in the twelfth year of Her Majesty's Reign, 
 and intituled, An Act to amend the Militia Law of this Province, 
 in so far as regards the enrolment of, and fines iniftosed upon 
 Quakers, Me,ino-'^s and Tunkfrs ; and the Act passed in the 
 year of Her Mi. s Reign last aforesaid, and intituled, An Act 
 
 to alter the day hich the Militia shall annually assemble for 
 muster and discipline in Upper Canada, shall be and the sai<l Acts 
 are hereby icpealed ; but all Acts and Laws repealed ])y the 
 said Acts or any of them shall nevertlieless remain repealed ; 
 an»i all offences eommitt»>d against them or any of them before 
 \\\h. Act shall come into force, sliall and may l)e prosecuted and 
 punished after this Act shall come into force, under the said 
 Acts and Laws, which shall remain in force as to sucii offences. 
 
 II. The Governor or other person administering the Govern- 
 ment of this Province, for the time being, siiali, by virtue of liis 
 Office, be Conmiander in Chief of the Provincial Mditia, 
 
 III. The Provincial Militia shall be divided into two classes, 
 Sedentary and Active. 
 
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 SKDENTARY MILITIA. 
 
 IV. The Sedentary Militia shaU. consist of all the mal* 
 inhabitants of the Province of the ago of eighteen yean or 
 upwards and under sixty, not exemilted or cUaquahfied by 
 law. 
 
 V. The Sedentary Militiamen shall be divided into two 
 classes, to be called respectively Service men and Reserve men ; 
 the Service men shall be those of eighteen years of age and 
 upwards, but under forty years, and the Reserve men shall bo 
 those of forty years of age and upwards, but under sixty years. 
 
 VI. In time of peace, no actual service or drill shall be re- 
 quired of the Sedentary Militia, but they shall bo carefully en- 
 rolled from time to time ; and the Service men not exempted 
 from muster, shall also assemble for muster annually, at such 
 place and hour, in such manner and for such purposes, as the 
 Commanding Officer of each Battalion shall direct with respect 
 to each Company therein ; the muster day being in Lower Ca- 
 nada the twenty-ninth of June, and in Upper Canada the Queen's 
 Birthday, or if that day fall on a Sunday, then the day next 
 thereafter., 
 
 VII. The following persons only between the ages of 
 eighteen and sixty as aforesaid, shall be exempt from enrolment 
 and from actual service in any case : — 
 
 The Judges of the Superior Courts of Law or Equity in Upper 
 
 and Lower Canada ; 
 The Judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty ; 
 The Judges of the Circuit and County Courts ; 
 The Clergy and Ministers of all Religious denominations ; 
 The Professors in any College or University, and the persons 
 
 known as Les Fr^res de la doctrine Chr6tienne ; 
 The Warden, Keepers and Guards of the Provincial Peni- 
 
 teutiary. 
 
 And the following, though enrolled, shall be exempt from attend- 
 ing muster and from actual service at any time except in case 
 of war, invasion or insurrection : — ' 
 
 The Reserve Men ; 
 
 The Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils ; 
 
 The Members of the Legislative Assembly ; 
 
 The Officers of the said Councils and Asi^embly respectively 
 
 The Attorneys and Solicitors General ; 
 
 The Provincial Secretary and Assistant Secretaries ; 
 
 All Civil Officers who shall have been appointed to any Civil 
 
 OfHce in this Province under tlic Great Seal ; 
 All persons lawfully authorized to practice Physic or Surgery ; 
 All Advocates, Barri.stcrs, Solicitors and Attorneys ; 
 Notaries in Lower Canada ; 
 Half-pay and Retired Oiliccrs of Her Majesty's Army or Navy ; 
 
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 Poslmaslcrs and Mail Carriers ; 
 
 Seafaring Men actually employed in tlicir calling; 
 
 Masters of Public and Common Schools ; 
 
 Ferrymen ; 
 
 One Miller for each run cX. stones in every Grist Mill ; 
 
 Keepers of public ToU-Gates ; 
 
 Lock Masters and Labourers employed in attending to Locks 
 and Bridges on public Canals ; 
 
 The Engine Drivers, Conductors and Switchmen connected 
 with the several Railways actually in use in tliis Pro- 
 vince ; 
 
 Members of Fire Companies and of Hook and Ladder Com- 
 panies ; 
 
 Jailors, Constables and Officers of Courts of Justice, not being 
 such solely by virtue of their being non-commissioned 
 Officers of Militia ; 
 
 Students attending Seminaries, Colleges^ Schools and Acade- 
 mies, who have been attending such at least six months 
 previous (o the time at wliieh they claim such exemption ; 
 
 All Persons disabled by bodily infirmity. 
 
 All persons bearing Certificates from <he Society of 
 Quakers, Mennonists and Tunkers, or any Inhabitant oi this 
 Province, of any Religious denomination, otherwise subject to 
 Military duty in time of peace, but who from the doctrines of 
 his Religion, shall be averse to bearing arms, and shaU refuse 
 personal Military Service, shall be exempt therefrom. 
 
 But such exemption shall not prevent any person from serving 
 or holding a Commission in the Militia, if he desire it and be 
 not disabled by bodily infirmity : And no person shall have the 
 benefit of such exemption, unless he shall, at least one month 
 before he shall claim such benefit, have filed his claim thereto, 
 with his affidavit before some Magistrate of the facts on which 
 he rests his claim, with the Commanding Officer of the Company 
 within the limits whereof he resides : And whenever exemption 
 is claimed, whether on the ground of age or otherwise, the 
 burden of proof shall always be upon the claimant. 
 
 VIII. With a view to actual service in case of war, invasion 
 or insurrection, the Service men shall be divided into two 
 classes, to be called respectively, first class Service men and 
 second class Service men ; the first class to consist of unmar- 
 ried men and widowers without children, and the second class 
 of married men and widowers with children. 
 
 IX. When the Sedentary Militia are called out in case of war, 
 invasion or insurrection, those first taken for actual service, shall 
 bo volunteers from fhe Service men, then tiie first class Service 
 men, then the second class service men, and lastly the Reserve 
 men. 
 
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 X. The C()mmand(!r in Cliief shall have power from time to 
 time, by any Militia General Order, to divide the Province 
 
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 irrto rigFitPon Militnry Districts, to be (TosipnntofT ns Fir shnl! 
 see lit, nine to bo in IJpiier Cantiilji and nine in Lower Canada. 
 
 XI. The Coinnmnder in Chief shall have |)o\ver from time 
 to time, by any Militia (irnerul Order, to divide the Military 
 Distriels respectively into llef^iiucntal divisions, and the llcgi- 
 raental divisions into Uattalion divisions, and to desi«^nate sucli 
 divisions by such names or numbers as he shall see iit. 
 
 XIF. The Militiamen resident in each Hattalioii division, 
 fihall form a Jiattalion of the Ueyiment of the Ke^imental 
 division in which it lies, and nil the lijittalions in any Uegi- 
 mental division shall form the Regiment thereof. 
 
 XIIF. To each Military District a Colonel shall be a|)|H)inte(l 
 who shall connnand the Militia in such District, and to each 
 Battalion a Lieutenant Colonel, and such number of Major* 
 and Regin)en1:il SUiHOillcers as may be deemed necessary. 
 
 XIV. Each Lieutenant Colonel shall have power, by any 
 order made with tlit^ approval of the Colonel of the Military 
 District, from time to time to divide his Battalion division into 
 Company divisions, each containing, as nearly as may be con- 
 veniently practicable, not less than fifty nor inore than seventy- 
 five resident Service men ; and the Militiamen resident within 
 each Company division shall form a ComiKmyofthe Battalion. 
 
 XV. All now existing Militia divisions shall remain in force 
 until altered as aforesaid, and such of them as shall be allowed 
 to remain unaltered shall be held to have been made by the 
 proper authority under this Act, and for the purposes thereof. 
 
 XVI. To each Company of Militia there shall be appointed 
 of Commissioned Officers, a Captain, a Lieutenant, and an 
 ■Ensign; and of non-Commissioned OlTiccrs, three Serjeants and 
 
 three Corporals. 
 
 XVII. Tl'.e enrolment of the Sedentary Militiamen shall be 
 made in each Company division by the Captain thereof, with 
 the assistance of the Officers and non-commissioned OJlieers of 
 the Company ; and it shall be the duty of tiie Ca|)tain, and, under 
 his orders, of the other O (lice rs and non-cammissit)ned Oiiicers 
 of the Company, by actual enquiry at each house in the Com- 
 pany division, and by every other means in their power, to 
 make and keep at all times a correct Roil of tlie Company in 
 .such form as shall be directed l)y the Adjutant General. 
 
 XVMI. !t shall also be the duty of each man liable under this 
 Act tobc enrolled in any Company, and not so enrolled, to give 
 in his name, age and |)lace of re^idciiee, in writing, to the Cap- 
 tain or Ollieer commanding such Couipiuiv, within twenty days 
 after he shall become so liable, whether by the passing of this 
 Act, the alteration of any Militia division, change of residence, 
 or otherwise howsoever. 
 
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 XIX. 'Hif Odicnrroininiiinling a C()ini)any of tlic Sfdontiiry 
 "Mililiu shall williiii twonty (hiyn alter the aiimial muster day for 
 snch Company, make out acorriHrtcd Roll (lu'rcof, and trannmit 
 u certified copy thereof to the Ollicercouunanding the liattiilion, 
 who, within forty days after such mu.stt^r, shall forward a correct 
 Jleturn of the Hatlalion under his command to the Assistant 
 Adjutant General of the Military District, to be hiid before the 
 Colonel commanding the same ; ami the said Return shall then 
 b(! transmitted by tlu! Assistant Adjutant CJeneral, under the 
 ■orders of the said Colonel, to the Adjutant Gcueru! ut lleud 
 
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 XX. Each Company Roll sliall be corrected from time to 
 time as changes occur which ali'ect it ; and eveiy householder 
 and resident in the Company division, and every Assessor, Town 
 Clerk, or other Municipal Ollicer, sliall be at all times bound 
 to give to the Commanding Odicer or any Officer or non-commis- 
 sioned OfJioer of the Company, such information as may be re- 
 quired to make such corrections, and to answer all such questions 
 as any of them may pertinently put to hiuj for the purpose of ob- 
 taining such information : and every Militiaman shall be bound 
 to inform the Officer commanding the Company, in writing, 
 of any change of residence ov other circumstances affecting such 
 Militiaman, by which the Roll of any Company shall be aflectcd, 
 whether such Militiaman shall come into or leave the Company 
 division for Aviiith the Roll is made. 
 
 ACTIVE oil TOLUNTEER MILITIA COMPANIES. 
 
 XXI. The Active Militia o^" the Province in time of peace, 
 sliall consist of Voluntt;erTi(K)ps of Cavalry, field Batteries, foot 
 Companies of Artillery, and Companies of infantry armed as 
 Ridemen, to Ijc formed at places to be designated by the Com 
 inander in (3liief, Imt not exceeding in the wliole sixteen Troops 
 of Cavalry, seven (ield IJattc^ries of Artillery, five foot Companies- 
 of Artillery, and fifty ("oinpanics of Riflemen : the total of such 
 Volunteer Corps not exeeeding five thousand Oflicers and Men. 
 
 XXII. Each Volunteer Troop of Cavalry, Company of Foot 
 Artillery, or Company of Riflenien, shall consist of a Captain, a 
 Lieutenant, a Cornet, Second Lieutenant or Ensign, three Sei 
 jtMints, three Corporals, a Trumpeter or fiugler, and not exceed- 
 ing forty-lluee Privjites, except in Companies of Ridemen 
 wlierein the number of Privates may be any nuinher from forty- 
 three to seventy-five ; and each Field Battery of Artillery shall 
 consist of a Captain, two first Lieutenants, a Second Lieu- 
 tenant, a Serjeant Major, three Serjeants, three Corporals, tlirtie 
 Boiniiardiers, a Trumpeter, a Farrier, fifty-nine Gunners nnd 
 Drivers, including Wheelers, CoUarmaker and Shoeing-sniitli, 
 fifty-six horses, exclusive of Ollicers' horses, and of four spare 
 horses when the Battery is called into actual service. 
 
 XXI II. A Volunteer Marine Company may be formed at 
 each of the following places, Kingston, Cobourg, Toronto, 
 
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 piiny to consiHt ol' u Ciiplaiii, a Lii-iil«;iiiint and lifty men : and n 
 ConiutodortMif Provincial Marine may In- appointcti to(U)irtnKnul 
 the wliole and to rank aH a Lii'iit(>nant Colonel of Militia; 
 Captains in the I'rovineial Marine shall rank as Majors in the 
 Militia, and liieutenauts as Captains in the same. 
 
 XXIV. The said Marine Ctunpanies shall Ix; armed in 
 tatcli manner as the Connnandcr in Chief shidi direet, and 
 shall be trained and drilled as well to the use of small arms, 
 as in the management of f^nn boats and vessels and the work- 
 ing of great guns on board vessels. 
 
 XXV. In each Militia District there rrray be formed a Vo- 
 lunteer Comj)any of Engineers, to consist of a Captain, a 
 Lieutenant, a Second Lieutenant, and such number of men 
 not exeeeding seventy-five, us the Governor may direct : 
 but su(;h Companies »liall not be »ul>ject to drill or to service in 
 time of peace. 
 
 XXVI. All Volunteer Companies shall b<! formed and may be 
 disbanded !■ horily of the Commamler in Chitif, as may in 
 liis opinioii .» >t tend to further the purposes of this Act anJ 
 the public gcKxl. 
 
 XXVII. The arms and acconlrements of tFie ofTieers and 
 men of the several V^oluntcer Companies, shall l)e such as tlic 
 Commander in Chief shall from time to time direet, but of the 
 best and nu)st serviceable kind, without unnecessary ornament ; 
 such arms and accoutrements shall be furnished to the non- 
 commissioned ollieers and |>rivates of the said Volunteer Corps 
 at the exi)en8e of the Province, but sliall always remain Pro- 
 vincial projx'rty, and the i>arties receiving them shall be ac- 
 countable for them ; and the Commander in Chief may direct 
 such security as he may think proix^r to be taken for the safe- 
 keeping in good order of such Arms and Accoutrements, and 
 the re-delivery thereof to such OHicer as may be appointed to 
 receive them, whenever tlie Commander in Chief shall for any 
 purpose direct such re-delivery. ^' 
 
 XXVIII. The said arms and accoutrements shall })c renewed 
 and kept in repair at liie cost of the Province, whenever such re- 
 newal or repair shall become iiew'ssary from wear in service or 
 other cause than the fault or negletU of the |H;rson having charge 
 therrof, in which last named case they shall be renewed or 
 repaired l)y such |)erson, or, if renewed or repaired at the cost 
 of tiie Province, the cost may l)e recovered from such person as 
 a debt due by hinj to the Crown. 
 
 XXIX. The arms and accoutrements of non-commissioned ofH- 
 cers and men of Volunteer Com|)anies shall i)e kept Ijy them, ex- 
 cept in cases where the Commander in Chief siiall direct them to 
 be kept in Armouries, as he may do; in which case, if there bo 
 no I'ublic Armoury in which he shall direct them to be kept, the 
 
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Ciipttiin of tliR Company sliiill providn n nropor pliuM», nnd may 
 hi! iilluwcd aniiimlly ii Mtim imt »'\ti'(Hliim[ five poiiiid^ Tor ho 
 <ii)iiig uiid (or taking caix: oi'.such arms und uccuutrcnicntM. 
 
 XXX. C'oinniissiomd oincors of lli<! siiid ConipnnicH nhall 
 fiirnisli tlioir own anus and uc-eoulrcnu-nlM. 
 
 XXXI. Tliu Arms and Accirtili'cmenfH of tin; odicers nnd men 
 of sunli VolimU'tT Coinpiinii!s, und llii) IIors«!s iisnd by ihom as 
 sucli, shall b(! •■x«'mpt Irorn sinziiro in cxfu-ution and fmrn dis- 
 tress and as.sessinent, nor shall any siieli horse be disj)osed of 
 by any oHi(!er or man without leave of the Ollieer Commanding 
 the Company. 
 
 XXXH. Tli« Volunteer Militia Companies shall be drilled 
 and exereised, at sueh time in eaeli year and at such places as 
 the Commaniler in Chief may from time to time appoint; the 
 Volunteer Field Hatteries being so drilled and exercised during 
 twenty days in each year, of which twenty days ten shall bo 
 continuous, and the other Volunteer Corp.s once in each year 
 during ten continuous days, (Sundays not reckoned in either 
 case,) and the Companies under drill being (encamped during 
 tlu! whole or any jjart of the period for drill, if the Commander 
 in Chief shall see lit. 
 
 XXXIII. The Adjutant General shall draw up, under the direc- 
 tion of tli(! Commander in Chief, a code of instruction, drill and 
 exercise for the said Volunteer Companies, based on tliat in use 
 in llcr Majesty's Regular Army, and each Commissioned Ollieer 
 of a Volunteer Company shall be furnished with a eo|)y, and 
 shall bo governed by the said code in drilling and exercising 
 the corps to which he belongs. 
 
 XXXIV. For each day on which they shall be so drilled, the 
 olfieers and men of the said Volunteer Companies shall be paid 
 by the Province the following sums : 
 
 Captains per diem £0 
 
 Lieutenants „ 
 
 Second do Cornets or Ensigns 
 
 Non-Commissioned Ollieers and Privates. 
 and a further sum of live shillings ])er diem for each horse actu- 
 ally and necessarily i)resent and used for such drill, whether be- 
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 XXXV. Nothing herein 'C/rtuined shall be eonstnied to pie- 
 vent any such Com])any from assembling or being ordered out 
 by the Ollieer Conunaiiding ii; for drill or exercise, wiUioul 
 receiving any pay therefor from th(! Province, acct)rding to 
 any articles of engagement or n;gulatious of such Company, 
 previously apj)roved by the Commander in Chief; and tmy 
 such articles, in so far as they are not inconsistent witli tliis 
 Act, shall be enforced and the penalties which may be llwreliy 
 imposed shall, whenever they are incurred, be recoverable in 
 the manner hereinafter mentioned, by the person or ollieer 
 
(lojti^'ni»l«'(l for that pnrpo>r in such nrliclc«, fo nxu'h nurt nit 
 iiiiiy he tliiTfiii (Itrcctt'd, 
 
 XXXVI. SuHlcii'iit aiiiiiiiinilioM lor pniclicc at drill mIuiII he 
 Hii|>|)lic(l tt> tlu' V(iliiiilc«'r ("oiiipanii't at tin- fxiHnsc of tlur 
 Province, in niu-Ii manner im tliu Cuiiiinandiir in Ciiiof hIiuU 
 ilirt'cl. 
 
 XXW'II. K.ac'h Serjeant Major of a Volunteer Field Ilatleryof 
 Artillery shall, on aeeoiint «)f the ^^'reat re^^iMtnsiitility attaelied 
 to the t)Hiee, he paid by the Province at the rate ol lilty 
 )>onnds per aniniin ; and e«)inpelent persons shall he appointed 
 l»y the CoiuMiander in Chief to drill tlw «»lher N'olniiteer Com- 
 panies, and shalli>e paid iiy the I'rov inee seven shillings und 
 »ix pence currency per diem, when ho employed. 
 
 XXXVIII. The said Vohmtoi.'r Companies slinll heiiahlo tohc 
 called out in aid of the ordinary Civil power incase of riot «)r other 
 emergency requiring such services, and shall when soemplovecl 
 receive from the Muuicipality in which their services shall ho 
 re(|uired, iIk; ratet* of pay ahovu mentioned, and u further sum 
 of two shillings and six pence per man per »lietn for additional 
 expenses, and shall be also provided with proper lotlging l)y 
 such .Municipality; and the said sums, and the value of siieii 
 lodging if not furnished by the Municipality, may be recovered 
 from it by the Captain of the Company, in his t>wn name, and 
 when received or recovered shull bo paid over to the OlUceis and 
 men entitled thereto. 
 
 XXXIX. It shall be the duty t>f the Captain or Odicer r<im- 
 maiidiug any such Volunteer Company to callo\it the same, or 
 such portion thereof as may i)e necessary, for the purpose of 
 (|iielling any Ui« t, when thereunto re(piired in writing by the 
 Slayca-, Warden or other Head of the Mimieipality in which sucli 
 Kiot shall be, or any two Magistrates therein, and to obey 
 such instructions as shall be lawfully given him by any 
 Magistrate in regard to the mode of ipielling such Kiot : and 
 every Ollieer, non-Conunissioncd Olliccr and man of such 
 Com|)aiiy shall on every such occa.'*ion obey the cnders of lii.s 
 Commanding Ollieer; and the Ollieers and men when so called 
 out shall, without any further or other appointment and without 
 taking any oath of ollice, Im; Special Constables, and may and 
 shall act as such so long as they shall remain so called out. 
 
 Xr.. The Ollicers, non-Commissioned O/Iuiors and men 
 of Voluulecr Companies, shall, while they shall eontiime such, 
 be exempt from serving as Jurors ov Constablt^s ; and whenever 
 they sliall have served as such in one or more Volunteer Com- 
 panies during a term of seven yi.-ars, such exemption shall 
 continue after the expiration of the said term. 
 
 Xlil. \o non-Commissioned Otiieer or Man of any Vo- 
 lunteer Company, shall, in any case, unless legally discharged, 
 leave the same witlumt giving at least one month's notice 
 
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ill writing to ilu* Ci)iiiiiiaii<liiiK Ollicrr tlirrcof of his intt'ntioti 
 to lcavi> till- MMiiic ; tior rtliiill lir, iil iiiiy tiiiic, Inivt! tlir hatiio 
 corilriiry l4) tin- cii^iii^'ciiitiil i-oiilaiiu'd iininy iirlK'U'H ulfiiguf^u- 
 liK'iit lie rtliatl have signed. 
 
 \IA\. TIk^ Hfvcral Volunteer ('onipanicH, hIuiII Ik* Niihjoct to 
 iiis|)c('lioii Iroiii liiiii; to time hy Kidil Ollict-rs to !>«■ a|i|)oiiit*>(| 
 by the ('oiiiiiiaiKhT in (Miifl lor that purpose, one lor Upper 
 and out! tor Lower Canada, and paid hy the I'roviiiee, wlio 
 sliall report luily to the (lovernoron the stale orNueli corps and 
 tiit^ir arms, and act generally aeeording to the instrnetions 
 they shull reeeivi; t'roin the (Joiuiuander in Cl'.iet, and hIuiII 
 be paid hy the Province at the rate of lour hundred |i( unds per 
 uimuin uueh, und reiiiil)ursed their travelling expeUic.M, 
 
 UENRRAt. l>KOVI8IONII. 
 
 }(I<in. All Coniinissions ol'OHieers in the Provincial Militia 
 shall be granted by the Cuiuinunder in Cliiel' und during pleu- 
 snre. 
 
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 XLIV. All non-Conimissifmed Otncer« in the Provincial Mi- 
 litia, shall be appointed bv the Ollicer eonunanding liie 
 Battalion to which they belong, except in Volunteer Cotnpanies 
 where they shall be a|)pointed by the Ca])tain thereof, and 
 Hhnll hold their rank during pleasure. 
 
 XLV. No person shall be an Ollicer of Militia unless he be 
 one of Her Majesty's subj«'cts by birth or inituralization, and 
 shall have taken the oath of allegiance. 
 
 XliVI. Existing Commissions in the Provincial Militia and 
 appointments of non-Connnissioned Ollicers, shall remain in 
 fori-e, such ('onnnissions being subject {o be cancelled by the 
 Commander in Chief, and such appointments by the Ollicer 
 Commanding the Battalion: but no person shall be innmd to 
 serve in the I'rovincial Militia in a lower grade than Ik; has 
 once held, unless he shall have resigned his couutiission or be 
 redu('ed by sentence or order of somt; lawful Court u( authority, 
 nor shall any person who has been a non-commissioned Otiicer 
 in lier Majesty's Army, be bound to serve in the Militia in a 
 lower grade than he has held in the Army, uidess he have been 
 re<luced as aforesaid. 
 
 XLVn. There shall be an Adjutant General of Militia for the 
 Province, and two Deputy Adjutants General one for Upper 
 and the other lor Uower Canada ; the Adjutant General shall 
 litvve the raidv of Colonel in the Provincial Militia, and each of 
 the Deputy Adjutants General the rank of Lieutenant Colonel 
 therein, and they shall hold their Ollices during pleasure ; the 
 Adjutant General shall be paid by the Province at the rate of 
 seven hundred and lifty jxiunds, and each of the Deputy Adju- 
 tants General at the rate of iive hundred pounds, per annum. 
 
XLVIII. Tliere shall be in and for (mcli Military District an 
 Assistant Adjutant Goneral, who shall have the rank of Major 
 in the Militia, and shall act under the orders of the Colonel 
 commanding the Distric^t, and of the Adjutant General of the 
 Province, in preparing,', ol)taininiif and transmiltiui,' all Militia 
 returns and orders required or issued l)y the Adjutant (Jenenil, 
 and generally in assisting tlial Ollicer in the performaneo of liis 
 duties as regards such Military District. 
 
 XLIX. Each Assistant Adjutant General shall, in time of 
 peace, be paid by tlie Province for his services, at the rate of 
 thirty pounds per annum. 
 
 L. There shall be in and for each Military District an 
 Assistant Quarter Master General, whose duty it shall be to 
 make himself thoroughly acquainted with the roads and com- 
 munications and other matters appertaining to the topography 
 of his District, and to furnish such information on the subject 
 as may be required by the Commander in Chief, in which duty 
 the Ollicers of the Volunteer Engineer Corps shall assist him 
 with the local information they may acquire. 
 
 LI. All contraventions of this Act and of Regnlations or 
 Orders hiwlully made or gi'cn under it, when the Militia or 
 that portion thereof to which the otlender belongs, is not called 
 out lor actual service, sliall be punishable by jjenallies to be 
 imposed by one or more JuslJces of the Peace antl in a sum- 
 mary manner as lu icinaftcr provided, and Courts Martial shall 
 not be held. 
 
 CALLING OUT THE MILITIA. 
 
 LII. The Commander in Chief shall have full power to 
 call out the Militia or any part tiiereof, whenever it shall in his 
 opinion be advisable so to do, by reason of war, invasion or 
 insurrection, or imminent danger of any of them. 
 
 LIII. The Colonel commanding any Military District, or 
 the Lieutenant Colonel commanding any Battalion division, 
 shall have power upon any sudden emergency of invasion 
 or insurrection, or imminent danger of either, to call out the 
 whole or any |)art of the Militia within his conmiand, until 
 the ])leasure of the Commander in Chief shall be known. 
 
 LIV. Tlie Militia so called out by their Colonel or Lieutenant 
 Colonel, shall immediately obey all such orders as he may 
 give, and march to such place within or without the division 
 as he shall direct. 
 
 LV. When the Militia of any local division arc called out, in 
 case of war, insurrection or invasion, or iuuninent danger there- 
 of, all Companies of Vohmteers in snch division, shall be 
 included in the order and shall obey the Ollicer issuing it. 
 
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LVI. Wlion the whole Milit i;i of llie Province arc called out, 
 all the Volunleer Companies sliall bo included and shall in:ime- 
 diately obey the orders they may receive. 
 
 liVII. Kiicli Sedentary Militiunum called oiU for actual 
 servir-e ^^Ilall attenil at sticli time and place as may be directed 
 by the Ollieer coiiimanilini,' him, with any arms and accou- 
 Ireuients lie may have receiveil from the Province, and with 
 such provisions as such ofiicer shall direct. 
 
 LVIIl. When the Commander in Chief shall call out the 
 Militia, and the emergency shall not be such as to require that 
 the whole of the Sedentary Militia or of any class thereof, or 
 the whole in any Militia Division or of any class of Militiamen 
 therein, be taken for actual service, he may from time to time 
 direct the number of men to be furnished from the Sedentary 
 Militia of the whole Province or of any Militia Division 
 thereof, over and above the Volunteer Companies therein, 
 which shall always be the first taken lor actual service. 
 
 LIX. The number of men to be so furnished shall in the first 
 instance be taken from the first class service men in the several 
 Company Divisions in that part of the Province to which the 
 order applies, and in proportion as nearly as may be to the 
 number of such men in each ; Volunteers siiall be first taken 
 from each Company, but if the nur her ot Volunteers be not 
 sutlieient, th<ui sueii further numbei n may be required shall 
 be drawn by lot, under the superintendence of the Commanding 
 Officer of the Company, whose eertifieale that any man has 
 been so d'-afted, or volunteered, or consented to serve as sub- 
 stitute for a drafted man, shall be evidence of the fact. 
 
 LX. No Militiaman drafted for actual service shall be 
 exempt from serving, unless he shall forthwith pay a penalty of 
 ten pounds, which shall be given to any approved man 
 of the same class who is not himself drafted for service, and 
 will serve in the place of the Militiaman paying such penalty, or 
 such Militiaman may provide an approved substitute of the 
 sam(! class and not drafted, to serve in his place ; and any vo- 
 lunteer or substitute, by his consent to serve as such, shall 
 become liable in all respects as if drafted. 
 
 LXI. No man drafted and unfit from bodily infirmity to 
 perform his duty shall be taken for service. 
 
 LXII. If a greater number of men be required than the 
 whole number of first class service men, then the requisite 
 numb(!r shall be taken from the second class service men, 
 in like manner. 
 
 LXIII. The Sedentary Militiamen so taken or drafted for actual 
 service, shall be marched to such j)lace as the Commander iu 
 Chief shall appoint, by such Oflicers as shall be detailed for 
 that purpose by the LieiUcnant Colonel of the Battalion from 
 
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 which they are taken, and sliall there be embodied into Com- 
 panies and BatlalioMSi, in sucii manner as the Commander in 
 Chief shall direct, and being so embodied siiail be commanded 
 by such Ollicers as lie shall from their (lualilication and fitness 
 think proper to appoint. 
 
 LXIV. Any Volunteer Companies so called out for actual 
 service, may be embodied into Battalions, if the Commander 
 in Chief siiall think lit so to order. 
 
 LXV. The Militiamen so taken or drafted for actual 
 service from the Sedentary Militia, shall serve during one year 
 unless sooner disbanded, and may then be replaced by otiiers 
 taken as aforsaid, and shall not be liable to be again taken 
 until all others in the same class shall have been taken ; but the 
 men in Volunteer Militia Com|)anies shall serve for the time 
 for which they have engaged to serve, which time shall not be 
 less than live years, subject, however, to be determined on one 
 month's notice as hereinbelorc mentioned : Provided that no 
 Volunteer shall leave tiie service, either with or without notice, 
 at any time when the Militia are called out, unless he be 
 regularly discimrged or have served out tlie time for which he 
 engaged. 
 
 LXVI. The Militia so called out may be marched to any 
 part of the Province, or to any place without the Province 
 but conterminous therewith, where the enemy may be, and 
 from which an attack oii this Province may be ap[)reiiended. 
 
 LXVII. The Militia so called out and every Oilicer or man 
 belonging to it, from the time lie shall be ordered, taken or drafted 
 for acluiil scrvi(H,>, sliall be subject to the Articles of war and to 
 the Act for punishing Mutiny and desertion and all other Laws 
 then applicable to Her Majesty's Troops in this Province, and 
 not inconsistent with this Act : except that no Militiaman 
 shall be subject to any corporal punishment except death or 
 imprisonment, for any contravention of such laws ; and except 
 also that the Commander in Chief may direct that any pro- 
 visions of the said laws shall not apply to the Militia. 
 
 LXVIII. Any body of Militia so called out shall be command- 
 ed by the Oilicer highest in rank then present, or the senior of 
 two or more Ollicers of ecjual rank ; Ollicers of llor Majesty's 
 Regular Army shall always be reckoned senior to all Militia 
 Ollicers of the same rank, whatever be the dates of the res- 
 pective commissions ; and Colonels appointed by Commission 
 signed by the Commander of Her Majesty's Ut^gular Forces in 
 Canada, 'all command Colonels of Militia, whatever be the 
 d'Jite of their respective Commissions. 
 
 LXIX. No Militia Oilicer or Militiaman shall bo sentenced 
 to death by any Court Martial excej)t for mutiny, desertion to 
 the enemy, or traitorously delivering up to the enemy any 
 garrison, lortress, post or guard, or traitorous correspondence 
 
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with tlie enemy ; and no sciitenco of any General Court 
 Martial shall be carried into ellect until approved by the 
 Commander in Chief. 
 
 LXX. No Offie^- ' 
 any Militia Court M 
 
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 er Majesty's regular army shall sit on 
 
 ARMAMENT OF SEDENTARY MILITIA. 
 
 LXXI. The arms and accoutrements for the Sedentary Mili- 
 tia shall, when such Militia is not called out for actual service, 
 be kept in Armouries at the followinj^ places : Quebec, Three- 
 Rivers, llivi^re-du-Loup (below). Sore), St. John's, Montreal, 
 the City of Ottawa, Pres(!ott, Kingston, Pciterborough, Toronto, 
 Guelph, Hamilton, London and Chatham. 
 
 LXXIF. If there be at any such place no building adapted 
 to be used as such Armoury, the Commander in Chief may 
 cause a proper building to be erected, at a cost not exceeding 
 seven liundred and Hfty pounds for each such building; or he may 
 cause any public building or part thereof to be altered so as to 
 adapt it for such Armoury at a cost not exceeding one half the 
 said sum. 
 
 LXXIII. The Connnandcr in Chief may employ a proper 
 person to have charge of each such Armoury and of tlie arms 
 tiierein, and may cause such person to be paid at a rate not 
 exceeding seventy-five pounds per annum. 
 
 LXXIV. The arms in such Armouries respectively, shall be 
 delivered out to the Sedentary Militia called into actual service, 
 in such way as the Commander in Chief shall appoint. 
 
 LXXV. If there be any Militia division in which, from its 
 position, it shall not be deemed advisable to have the arms of 
 the Sedentary Militia kept in an Armoury, such arms may be 
 delivered out to the enrolled service men of the first class or of 
 tlie first and second classics in such division, as the Commander 
 in ("iiief may order, eiicii man giving a receipt for those received 
 by him and security lor their safe keeping and delivery to any 
 Oificer authorized to demand them. 
 
 BILLETING AND CANTONING TROOPS AND MILITIA WHEN ON ACTUAL 
 
 SKHVICE, AND FURNISHING CARIUAOES, HORSES, &C., 
 
 FOR THEIR TUANSl'ORT AND USE. 
 
 LXXVf. When Her Majesty's Regular Forces or the Militia, 
 shall be on a march within this Province, and billeted as herein- 
 after mentioned, every hoiiseiiolder therein shall, when re- 
 quired, fnrnisli them wilh house-room, fire and utensils for 
 cooking, and candh-s ; and in cases of emergency, by actual 
 invasion or otherwise, the Otlieer commanding the Regiment, 
 Battalion or Detachment of Troops or Militia, may direct and 
 emi)ower any Ollicer or non-commissioned Olfieer of the same, 
 
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 or other person, iifter having first obtained a warrant for such 
 purpose I'roni a Justice of the Peace, to impress and take such 
 liorses, carriages or oxen as the service may require, the use of 
 whicli shall be thereafter paid for at the usual rate of hire for 
 such horses, carriages or oxen. 
 
 LXXVII. When the said Troops of Iler Majesty, or the 
 Militia, or any Regiment, Battalion, or Detachment of 
 the same, are on a march as aforesaid, the OlHeer or 
 non-commissioned OfUcer commanding them shall require 
 a Justice of th<' Peace to billet, and such Justice shall 
 immediately thereupon so billet the said Troops or Militia as 
 to facilitate their march, and in such manner as may be most 
 commodious 1o the Inhabitants ; and every inhabitant house- 
 holder shall receive the Troops or Militia, so billeted upon 
 him, and furnish them with the lodging and articles men- 
 tioned in the next preceding section. 
 
 LXXVIII. No Oifieer shall be obliged to pay for his lodging 
 where he shall be regularly billeted -/but each householder upon 
 whom such soldiers are billeted shall receive from Government for 
 each non-commissioned Otficer, Drummer and Private of In- 
 fantry, a daily ral(^ of six pence, and for eacli cavalry soldier, 
 whose horse shall be also provided with stabling and forage, 
 a daily rate of fifteen pence ; and every Ollicer or non-commis- 
 sioned Ollicer to whom it belongs to receive, or who does ac- 
 tually receive the j)ay for any ollicers or soldiers, shall, every 
 four days, or before they shall (juit their (juarlers if they shall 
 not remain so long as four days, settle the just demands of all 
 householders, victuallers, or other persons uj)on whom such 
 ollicers and soldiers are billeted, out of their pay and subsis- 
 tence money, b(>fore any part of the said pay or subsistence 
 money shall be distributed to them respectively, ])rovided such 
 demands do not exceed in amount their pay and subsisttmce 
 money for the time, credit beyond which is not to be granted. 
 
 LXXIX. When the safc^ty of this Province shall re<|uire that 
 the said Troops of Her Majesty or Militia, or any Jtegiment, 
 Battalion or Detachment of the same should be cantoned in any 
 ])art ol' this Province, any Justice of the Peace in the places 
 where such Troops or Militia may be cantoned, upon receiving 
 an order from the Ollicer commanding them or on a requisition 
 form the Officer commanding any such cantonment, may 
 quarter and billet, and the said Justice is hereby required to 
 (]narter and billet the Ollicers, non-commissionetl Ollicers, 
 Drummers and Privates of the said Troops or Militia, upon 
 the several inhabitant householders, as near as may be to the 
 place of cantonment, avoiding as much as jjossible to incom- 
 mode the said inhabitants, and taking tine care to acconnno- 
 date \]h'. said Troops or Militia. 
 
 LXXX. If any inhabitant shall consider himself aggrieved 
 by liavinga greater number of llie said Troops or Militia billeted 
 iij)on him than he ought to bear in |(roporlion to his neighbours. 
 
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thi-n on complaint being made 1o Iwo or more Justices of the 
 locality wlicre hucIi Troo|)S or Militia shall be cantoned, they 
 may and are hereby authorized to relieve such inhabitant, by 
 ordering sueii and so many of the said Troops or Militia to be 
 removed and quartered ujion suoh other person or persons as 
 they shall see cause, and such other person or persons shall 
 receive such Troops or Militia accordingly. 
 
 LXXXI. No Justice of the Peace having any Military Office 
 or Commission in the said Troops or Militia, shall directly or 
 indirectly be concerned in the quartering or billeting of any 
 Oilicer, non-conmiissioncd Ollieer, Soldier or Soldiers of the 
 Uegiment, Corps or Detachment under the immediate command 
 of such Justice or Justices. 
 
 LXXXII. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to 
 authorize the ((uarteriiig or billeting of any Troops or Militia 
 cither on a march or in cantonment, in any Convent or Nun- 
 nery of any Religious Order of Females, or to oblige any such 
 Religious Order to receive such Troops or Militia, or to furnish 
 them with lodging or house room. 
 
 LXXXIII. When any Troops of Her Majesty or Militia or any 
 part of them, shall be so cantoned as aforesaid, any Justice of 
 the Peace where such cantonment is made, upon receiving an 
 order to that cilbct from the Officer commanding the said 
 Troops or Militia, or a requisition in writing from the Offi- 
 cer commanding that cantonment, for such and so many 
 carriages as may be requisite and necessary for the said 
 Troops or Militia, is hereby required to issue his War- 
 rant to such person or persons as may be possessed of 
 carriages, horses or oxen, within his jurisdiction, requiring him 
 or them to furnish the same for the service aforesaid, and if he 
 refuse to furnish the same after receiving such Warrant, they 
 may be impressed and taken for such service ; but no such 
 carriage, horse or ox, or any carriage, horse or ox, men- 
 tioned in the previous sections of this Act, shall be compelled 
 to proce(<d more than thirty miles, unless in cases where other 
 carriages, horses or oxen cannot immediately be hud to replace 
 them ; and such earriugeji, horses or oxen shall be paid for at 
 the usual rate of hire. 
 
 LXXXfV. Incases of emergency, when it may be necessary 
 to provide projjer and speedy means for the conveyance by 
 Hallway or by water, of the said Troops of Her Majesty or 
 Militia, and also of their ammunition, stores, provisions 
 and baggage, any Justice of the Peace of and in the locality 
 where such Troops or Militia may be either on a march or in 
 caiiloinneiit, u|)()n receiving a reciuisition in writing from the 
 Onicer commanding su(!h Troops or Militia, for such railway 
 cars and engines, boats or other craft as may bt^ rc{|uisite for 
 the conveyance of the said Troops or Militia and their am- 
 nmnition, stores, ))rovisions and baggage, may issue and is 
 hereby required to issue hi-' 'varrant to sueli i)erson or persons 
 
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 as may be possessed of such rnihvay cars and engines, 
 boats or other craft within his jnristlietion, re(|niring iiini or 
 them to fiirnisii tiie same for that service, at and after the rate 
 of payment to be aUowed liy the said Justice, not exceeding 
 the usual rate of hire fo' such railway cars and engines, boats 
 or other craft ; and if any such person or persons siiall neglect 
 or refuse, after receiving such Warrant, to iurnisli such railway 
 cars or engines or his or their boats or craft for tliat service, 
 such railway cars or engines, boats or other craft may be 
 impressed and taken for such service : Provided always, that 
 nothing iierein shall be construed to impair tiie eJl'eet of any 
 Act obliging any Railway Company to convey sntth Trooj)s, 
 Militia, and other articles aforesaid, in any manner or on any 
 terms and conditions therein mentioned, or to release any such 
 Company from any obligation or penalty thereby imposed. 
 
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 PENALTIES. 
 
 LXXXV. Any OlTicer of Militia refusing or neglecting to 
 make or transmit, as herein prescribed, any Roll or Return, or 
 copy thereof, re(juired by tiiis Act or by any lawful authority, or 
 wilfully making any false statement in any such Roll, Return, 
 or copy, shall tlicreby incur a penalty of ten [jounds, for each 
 ollence. 
 
 LXXXVI. Any Oflicer or non-commissioned Ollicerof Militia 
 refusing or neglecting to assist his Commanding Ollieer in 
 making any such Roll or Return, or refusing or neglecting to 
 obtain or to assist him in obtaining any information whieli he 
 may require in order to make or correct any Roll or Return, 
 shall thereby incur a penalty of five pounds, for each offence. 
 
 LXXXVII. Any Militiaman or other person refusing or ne- 
 glecting to give any notice or information which may be neces- 
 sary for making or cori-ecling the Roll of any Company, and 
 which he is required by this Act to give to the Commanding 
 Ollicer of such Company, or to any Oflicer or non-commissioned 
 Odicer thereof demanding the same at any seasonable hour and 
 place, shall thereby incur a penalty of two pounds ten 
 shillings, for each ollence. 
 
 LXXXVIII. Any Militia officer or man, not exempt from at- 
 tending muster, who shall neglect or refuse to attend the same 
 at the place and hour appointed therefor, or shall refuse or 
 neglect to obey any lawful order al or eonctrning such nnister, 
 shall thereby incur a penally of one pound live shillings, for 
 each olii'iicc. 
 
 LXXXIX. Any person who shall interrupt or hinder any 
 Militia at Drill, or shall trespass on the bounds set out by the 
 proper oflicer for such Drill, shall thereby incur a penalty of 
 one pound liv(! shillings, for each oUcncc, and may be taken 
 into (Mistojly and (hitained by any person by the order of the 
 Commanding Oflicer, until such Drill be over for the day. 
 
XC. Any Officnr, non-commissioned Officer or Militia- 
 man, who shall disobey any lawful order of his superior ollicer, 
 or shall be guilty of any insolent or disorderly behaviour to- 
 wards such Otlicer, shall thereby incur a penalty of one pound 
 five shillings, for each offence. 
 
 XCI. Any Officer, non-commissioned Officer or Militia- 
 man, who shall fail to keep any arms or accoutrements delivered 
 or entrusted to him in proper order, or shall appear at drill, 
 parade, or on any other occasion, with his arms or accoutre- 
 ments out of proper order, or unserviceable, or deficient in any 
 respect, shall incur a penalty of one pound, for each such 
 ofTence. 
 
 XCII. Any OfKcer, non-commissioned Officer or man of 
 any Volunteer Company of Cavalry or Field Artillery, who 
 shall, without the consent of the Commanding Officer of such 
 Company, sell or diispose of any horse which shall have been 
 drilled for the purposes of such Company, or which he shall 
 have undertaken to furnish for such purposes, and which shall 
 have been approved by the Commanding Oificer of the Com- 
 pany, shall thereby incur a penalty of five pounds for each 
 offence. 
 
 XCIII. Any person who shall unlawfully dispose of or remove 
 any arms, accoutrements or other articles belonging to the 
 Crown, or refuse to deliver up the same when lawfully 
 required, or shall have the same in his possession, except for 
 lawful cause the proof of which shall have lie upon him, shall 
 thereby incur a penalty of five pounds for each ofl'ence ; 
 but this shall not prevent such offender from being indicted 
 and punished for any greater offence if the facts amount to 
 such, instead of being subjected to the penalty aforesaid ; and 
 any person charged with any Act .subjecting him to the penally 
 imposed by this section may be arrested l)y order of the Magis- 
 tratt! before whom the complaint is made, upon affidavit shew- 
 ing that there is reason to believe that such person is about 
 to leave the I^rovince, carrying any such arms, accoutrements 
 or articles with him. 
 
 XCIV. Any Officer or Man of a Volunteer Militia Company 
 who when such Company shall be lawfully called upon to act 
 in aid of the Civil power, shall refuse or neglect to go out with 
 such Co,u|)any, or to olu'y any lawful order of his Superior 
 Officer or of any Magistratt;, shall thereby incur a penalty of 
 five pounds for each offence. 
 
 XCV. Any inhabitant householder who shall refuse or ne- 
 glect to receive any Troops or Militia billetted upon him or to 
 furnish them with the lodging and articles which he is by this 
 Act required to furnish, shall thereby incur a penalty of two 
 pounds for each such offence. 
 
XCVI. Any person lawfully rp(|iiirc(l iinilfrlliix Act to fiirnisli 
 nny ciirriiigr, iiorse or «)x, lor tin- fonvcyiiiicc or iiwr of any 
 Troo|)M or Mililia, who siiiill ncirk-ft or refuse! to fllrIli^'ll the 
 i^jime, ^<hilll thereby incur a penalty of two pounds for each 
 such od'eni-e. 
 
 XCVH. Any person lawfully required under this Act to furnissh 
 nny ralKviiy earorenj^'ine, boat or oilier emit, for the conveyance 
 or ii.-ie of any Troops or Militia, who shall neglect or refuse to 
 furnif 'he same, shall thereby incur a penally of live pounds 
 for c! .leh ollenee. 
 
 XC\'II[. Any person who shall wilftdly con»ravene any enact- 
 ment of this Act when no other penally is imposed for such 
 conlravenlion, shall thereby incur a penalty of five pounds 
 for each tdlence, but this shall not prevent his being indicted 
 and punished for any greater ollenee if the facts amount to 
 such. 
 
 XCiX. All penalties incurred under this Act or under any 
 llegulalions, Orders or Articles of Engagement lawfully 
 made or entered into untler it, shall be recoverable, with 
 costs, on the evidence of one credible Witness, on complaint 
 or inforuiatioM l)el'ore om'. Justice of the I'eaee if the amount 
 ilo not exceed live pouu'ls, and before two .lusliecs 
 of the Peace if the amount exceeds that sum ; and to 
 the recovery of such iienalties all the provisions of any Act 
 or Acts then in force relative to the performance of the duties of 
 Justices of the Peace duI of Sessions, with respect to sum- 
 mary convictions and or(h'rs, shall apply in so far as may not 
 be inconsistent wilh this Act ; and any Ollicer non-connnis- 
 sioncd Ollicer or privatt^ of any \'olHnIeer Militia Compiiny 
 shall be a eomiK'tent witness in an} such case, although the 
 penally may be applicable to the purposes of such Company. 
 
 C. No prosecution against an Ollicer of Militia for any 
 penalty uniler this Act shall be brought except on the (!om- 
 ])laint of the Adjutant fJeneral ; and no such prosecution against 
 any non-conuuissioned ollicer or private of tlic Sedentary Mili- 
 tia, sliall be brought except on the coiiiijlainl of tlie Coumiand- 
 ing Ollicer or Adjutant of the IJatlalion or Captain of the 
 Company to which such non-connriissioned ollicer or private 
 shall belong ; and no such prosecution agaiii>t any priviile or 
 non-commissioned ollicer of a Vohiiiterr Comjiany, shall be 
 brought except on complaint of the C'aj)tain or Commanding 
 Ollicer thereof : but the Adjulant General, m;iy authorize any 
 ollicer of Militia to make such compbiint in his name, and the 
 authority (jf any such olIiciT alleging himself to have been so 
 autliori/edto make any complaint, shall not be controverted or 
 called in question except by the Adjutant General. 
 
 CI. No such prosecution shall be commenced after the expi- 
 ration of six months from \Uv. commission of the ollenee 
 

 chorjr" t nnloss it lio for nnl.iwfiilly buying, selling or having 
 in pc;; ,' sioii iirins or iiccoulrt'i.ic'nt.s dulivorcd to tlu; Milititi. 
 
 CII. Tlio |)L'n!ihy wiicn rccovori'd wluill, if tlin ofTcnder 
 belong to till' Active or Voliinleer Mililiii, he |)iiid over to llio 
 oliirer eomiiiJindiiig llie ("oiiipiiiiy, for tlit; purposes liu-n'of, niul 
 fijiull be apj)iied by iiiiii to Mieli pulpo^<(•.s iiiid iieeoiuited for by 
 liim t(t the Adjiitiint Ci('uerai ; and if the oileiuler belong to tho 
 Sedentary ISIilitia, then the same sliall l)e paitl over to tho 
 As.si.stant Adjutant (Jeneral, who whall aeeoiuit for and pay it 
 over to the lleeciver (General for die piiblie uses of (he I'rovinee, 
 and it shall make part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund. 
 
 MISCE^LANKOUli PBOVISIONS. 
 
 CHI. It siiall not be nec^essary that any order or notice under 
 this Act be in writing, unless it i^ herein jjrovideil that it shall 
 be so, provided it be eouiniunieated to the person who is lo 
 obey or be ijound by it in person, either dinntly by the ollieer 
 or person malung or giving it, or l)y some other by his order. 
 
 CIV. All General Orders of Militia, or other Mililia Orders 
 issued through or by tiie Adjutant Oeneral, shall lie held to bo 
 sudieiently notified lo all persons whom they may eoneern, by 
 their insertion in tiie Canada Cazette, and a eopy of the said 
 Gazetic purporting to eontain them shall bnprimujuck cvidenco 
 of sueli orders. 
 
 CV. All Orders made by the Conininnding OlTicer of a ISIi- 
 litia, Regimental or Uatlalion division, shall be held to be sulli- 
 ciently notified to all persons whom it may concern, by their 
 insertion in some newspaper pul)lislied in sneh division, or, i£.. 
 then! be none, then in some neighbouring division, and by 
 posting a eo[)y thereof on the door of the ('Imreh, or,»f"somo 
 Court-house, Mill, or other ])ublie place, in eacii Company 
 division in sueii Regimental or Battalion divisioii. 
 
 CVI. Tiie produetion of a Commission or appointment, war- 
 rant or order in writing, purporting to be granted or made ac- 
 cording to the provisions of this Act, shall be /jiimd facie evi- 
 dence of siutli commission or appoinlment, warrant or order 
 without proving the signatiu'c or setil thereto, or tho authority of 
 the person granting or making such comirission, appointment, 
 warrant or order. 
 
 CVII. Every Bond to the Crown which may be entered into 
 by any person under the autiiority of this Act, or according to 
 any Getu'ral Order or Regulations made under it, or for the 
 purpose of seeuriiig the iiayinenl of any sum of money, or the 
 p3rlormance of any duty or act hereby rocpiired or aulliorized, 
 befort; any Judge or Justice of the Peace, or ollieer therein 
 authorizi'd to take the same, shall be valid, and may be estrialed 
 or enforced ac(;ordingly. 
 
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CVIII. Evrry sum of money which nny person or rorporntion 
 nhnll hv uiidcr tliis Ad lial)l(' to pay or repay to the Crown, or 
 whieh ^>hall be e(|iiivali'iU to the (laiuau;es (h)ae to any arms or 
 other property of the Crown ii^ed tor Militia pnrpoiseM, Nhall bu 
 a debt due t«) the Crown, and may be reeovered in uny manner 
 in whieii mn-U debts may be reeoven-d. 
 
 CIX. Every aetion and prosecution against any Oflieer or 
 perst)n, for any thing »ione in |»ursuan(<' of this Ael, shall bo 
 laid and tried in Lower Canada in tiie Dislriet, and in Upper 
 Canada in the County, where aet complained ol wastlone, and 
 shall not be commenced alter ihu end of six monthii from thu 
 doing of such aet, nor until one eulendar month's notice in 
 writing of the aetion and of the cause thereof shall have been 
 given to the defendant ; anil in any such action the defendant 
 may plead the g<iieral issue, and give this Act ami tiie special 
 mutter in evidence at the trial : and no Plaintiff shall recover 
 in any such acli«)n if a tender of sullicii^nt amends was mado 
 before the action was brought, or if u sutlicient stim of money 
 has been paid ii»to Court by the defendant after the action was 
 brought. 
 
 ex. If a verdict shall pass for the defendant in any action 
 referred to in the next preceeding Section, or the plaintiff shall 
 become non-suit or discontinue the action after issue joined, or 
 if on demurrer or otherwise judgment be given against tho 
 ])laintifl', the defendant shall recover his full costs as between 
 Attorney and Client, and shall have the same remedy therefor 
 as any defendant hath in other cases : and though a verdict be 
 given for the plaintilf, he shall not have costs against the de- 
 fendant, unless the Judge before whom the trial shall be, shall 
 certify his approbation of the action and of the verdict therein. 
 
 CXI. All sums of money required to defray any expense 
 authorized by this Act, may be paid out of the Consolidated 
 Revenue Fund of this Province, upon warrant directed by the 
 Governor to the Receiver General ; and such warrants may be 
 made in favour of the Adjutant General of Militia, to enable 
 him to i)ay such expense, or in favour of the party directly en- 
 titled to the money: Provided always, that no sum of money 
 shall be so paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund until 
 first approved of by Resolution of tlie Legislative Assembly in 
 the annual estimates. 
 
 CXll. A detailed account of all moni«'s advanced or expended 
 under this Act shall be laid before each liranch of the Provin- 
 cial Parliament within fifteen days after the opening of the 
 then next Session thereof. 
 
 CXIII. The due application of all monies advanced or ex- 
 pended under the authority of this Act, shall be accounted for 
 to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, through the Lords 
 Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, in such manner 
 
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 and form as Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Suocessors shall 
 direct. 
 
 CXIV. The Intcrprottttion Act shall apply to this Act, and to 
 nil Rc^uliitiuns, orderH and articles of engagement lawfully 
 made or entered into under it. 
 
 CXV. This Act shall come into operation upon the first day 
 of July, one thousand eight hundred and tifty-five, and shall 
 be in force for three years, and from thence until the end of 
 the then next euHuing Session of Parliament of this Province, 
 and no longer ; Provided, tiiat if nt the time when this Act 
 would otherwise expire, there should happen to be Wor 
 between Her Majesty and the United States of America, then 
 this Act shall continue in force until the end of the Session 
 of the Provincial Parliament next after the Proclamation of 
 Peace between Her Majesty and the said United States, and 
 no longer. 
 
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