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ANNO DECIMO-NONO ET VICESIMO

V I C T O R J iE tt E G I N ^ .

CAP. XLIV.

An Act to amend the Militia Law,

[Assented to I9th June, 1866.1

TjU HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Act passed in the Preamble.

T T eighteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled,
An Act to regulate the Militia of this Province, and to repeal 18 V. c. 7?.
the Ads now in force for that purpose : T^ efore, Her Majesty,
by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council
and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows :

I. Notwithstanding any thing in the Act cited in the Number cf
Preamble to this Act, the Commander in chief may from time MUitaryDis-
to time, by any Militia General Order, alter the division of the \^'^^^ "^^ **
Province into Military Districts, and may, ifhe shall see fit, S^irmrTof
increase the number of such Districts beyond the number of the Provinoe.
nine in either portion of the Province ; and to the Military

Districts to be so constituted all the provisions of the said Act
shall apply, and a Colonel and proper staff Officers may be
appointed in each of them,

II. Notwithstanding any limitation in the said Act of the
number of V^olunteer Companies or Corps, or of the number of
men therein, the Commander in Chief may accept the services
of any greater number of Volunteers and may form them into
Companies or Corps, provided that no greater number of Volun-
teer Companies, Corps or men than that limited by the said
Act, shall receive pay or allowances, except on actual service,
in time of <var or insurrection : And the Volunteer Companies
and Corps receiving pay shall be known as Class A, and those
receiving no pay as Class B ; and whenever the number of
Cotnpanies or Corps or men in Class A shall fall short of that
limited by the said Act, the deficiency may be supplied by

3 removing

UnpaidVolun-
teer Corpa
maybeformed.

Unpaid Volun-
teers may be-
come paid
Corps, as
vaoancies

occur.

Cap. 44. Militia Law— Amendment. 19 Vier. 1866.

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Section 46 of

the said Act

declared to

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apply to Bat-

talions embo-

died in 1837,

1838, 1846

and 1847.

Proviso: other removing the proper number from Class B into Class A ; Pro-""
nrovisions of vided always, that in all respects, except as to pay and allow-
apply ?othei5^ ®"^®®' *^® provisions of the said Act shall apply in like manner
• to the Volunteer Companies, Corps and men in both Classes.

Governor may III. The Commander in Chief may, by any Militia General

aSmuTte? ^''^^'' ^^''P^"^^ ^ith the Annual General Muster of the Seden-

and again ' ^^^ Militia m either Section of the Province, either in any

require it. particular year or until further order, and may in like manner

again direct such muster to be held, if he shall see fit, and any

such order shall have the force of law according to the terms

thereof.

Surgeons, &c., IV. The Commander in Chief may appoint to all Militia
Snted to" Regiments, Companies or Corps, the proper number of Surgeons,
Militia. Assistant Surgeons and Veterinary Surgeons.

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Provision if V. In amendment of the sixth section of the said Act Be it

SivKona l^acted and declared That in case the Muster Day for the

Si^day. Sedentary Mihtia, as fixed by Law, shall happen to fall on a

Sunday, the day following such Sunday shall be deemed to be

the day of Muster in Lower as well as in Upper Canada.

Oath of Alle- VI. Aud in explanation of the forty-fifth Section of the said
Sof Bri: ^""^^ '* '^ declared and enacted, That it is not and shall not be
tish born Sub- necessary that any person should take the oath of allegiance in
jecte. order to qualify him to be an Officer in the Militia, unices he be

by birth an Alien. '

VII. And to avoid doubts under the forty-sixth Section of the
said Act, It 18 declared and enacted. That the said Section
applies to and mcludtes the Battalions embodied in the years

"""l.^u""^^^ ^^^}l *»"°d^«d and thirty-seven, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-eight, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-six and one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, in
the Ci les of Quebec and Montreal, and that the said battalions
are still lawfully embodied, and Commissions in them are valid
under the said fo/ty-sixth Section ; and the said Battalions are
subject to all the provisions of the said Act as Sedentary Militia

th "^d^A^ "''^ ^^ ^"'^'^ ^^ *^^ Commander in Chief undei

TORONTO :-Printed by S. Derbishire & G. Desbarax.,

Law I'rinter to the Queen's Most ^Excellent Majesty.

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