in your account. seal this day of thousand eight hundred Herein fail not. Given under my hand and in the year of our Lord one No. 18. Order to pay so much a Day to a Soldier on Furlough. To the [churchwardens or overseers] of the [parish, township, or place.] You are hereby required to pay A. B. [describe whether noncommissioned officer, &c.] within-named on furlough, from day of the to the day of signed by [the name of the commanding officer signing the furlough], the sum of out of any money now in your hands, or out of the parish money which shall come to your hands in respect of the rates for the relief of the poor, being per day, from the at the rate of to the day of day of both inclusive, and for so doing this shall be your warrant and pass as such for your payment, under the Marine Mutiny Act. Witness my hand one thousand eight hundred and Justice of the peace for the twenty day of MILITIA. Exemptions from serving in the Militia. Peers, commissioned officers of his majesty's other forces, castles, or forts, officers on half-pay (provided they have offered to serve in the militia or volunteers, or are incapable), commissioned officers serving or who have served four years in the militia; resident members of either of the universities, clergymen, teachers licensed where the place of meeting shall have been duly registered within twelve months previous to the general militia meeting appointed to meet in October; constables or other peace officers, articled clerks, apprentices, seamen or sea-faring men, persons mustered, trained, or doing duty or employed in his majesty's docks, the Tower of London, Woolwich Warren, the general depôt, Portsmouth, or at the powder mills, magazines, &c. belonging to his majesty; persons free of the company of watermen of the river Thames; poor men having more than one child born in wed lock; persons serving or having served in the army of reserve (43 Geo. 3. c. 123. and effective volunteers, 42 Geo. 3. c. 99. s. 43. 52 Geo. 3. c. 38. s. 39.) No. 1. Order to the High Constable for Lists to be returned; with the Petty Constable's Warrant thereupon, under 42 Geo. 3. c. 90. s. 25. We, W. R., E. R. M., and J. H., esquires, three of his majesty's deputy-lieutenants for the county aforesaid, at our general meeting assembled, do hereby require you forthwith to issue out your order to the several constables, tithingmen, headboroughs, or other officers of the several parishes, tithings, and places within your said , according to the form. hereunder, or hereupon written, or hereunto annexed. Given under our hands and seals the year day of No. 22. High Constable's Order above referred to. County of To the constable of to wit. in the By virtue of an order from three of his majesty's deputylieutenants, of and for the said county, unto me directed, you are hereby required within fourteen days after the receipt of this order, to give or leave notice in writing, in the form hereunto annexed,* to or for every occupier of every dwellinghouse, where any person shall reside within the limits of the place for which you act, at his or her dwelling-house, or where such dwelling-house shall be divided into different stories or apartments, and occupied distinctly by several persons, then to or for the occupier of each distinct story or apartment, to prepare or produce to you within fourteen days next ensuing the day of giving such notice, a list in writing, to the best of his or her belief, of the christian and surname of each and every man resident in such dwelling-house, or distinct story or * The forms referred to by this form, are provided by government. apartment, between the ages of eighteen or forty-five years, specifying the ages of, and other particulars relating to the persons returned therein, according to such form. And you are also required, within one month after the delivery of such notice by you, to make out a fair and true list in writing, according to the form hereunto annexed, marked (B.) of the names of all the men usually, and at this time dwelling within your parish, or place, of such ages as aforesaid, as well of those who have not made any return, or been returned in pursuance of such notices as aforesaid, as of those who shall have made such returns, or been returned in pursuance thereof, distinguishing their respective ages, ranks, and occupations, and such other particulars as aforesaid, and those who have made returns to such notices, from those who have neglected to make such returns, (and when such returns shall not have been made, such ages and other particulars are to be specified by you in your return according to the best of your belief, and where the true names of such persons cannot be procured, their common appellation shall be sufficient) and distinguishing which of the persons so returned labour under any infirmity likely to incapacitate them from serving as militia men, and which of them claim to be exempt from serving in the militia, and on what account; which list so fairly and truly made as aforesaid, or a true and exact copy thereof, you are hereby required to return, upon oath, to the deputy-lieutenants and justices of the peace, for the said county, at their meeting, for that purpose to be held on the day of next ensuing the date herehereof, at in the said county, at the hour of in the forenoon. And you are hereby further required to affix a true copy of the said list, so to be made out as aforesaid, on the door of the church or chapel belonging to your parish, township, or place, and if such place hath no church or chapel belonging thereto, then on the door of the church or chapel of some parish or place thereto adjoining, on some Sunday morning, which shall be three days at the least before the said day of January. And also you are to affix notice in writing at the bottom of the said list, of the day and hour, and place of the said meeting, and that all persons who shall think themselves aggrieved may then appeal, and that no appeals will be afterwards received. And I give you notice, that no peer of this realm, nor any commissioned officer in his majesty's other forces, or in any one of his majesty's castles or forts, nor any officer on the half pay of the navy, army, or marines, non-commissioned officer, or private man serving in his majesty's other forces, commissioned officer serving, or who has served four years in the militia, nor any resident member of either of the universities, clergyman, teachers licensed within the county to teach in some separate congregation, whose place of meeting shall have been duly registered within twelve months previously to the day of October last, constable, or other peace officer, articled clerk, apprentice, seaman, or sea-faring man, [nor any person mustered, trained, or doing duty or employed in any of his majesty's docks, or dock-yards for the service thereof, or employed and mustered in his majesty's service in the Tower of London, Woolwich Warren, the several gun-wharfs at Portsmouth, or at the several powder mills, powder magazines, or other storehouses belonging to his majesty, under the direction of the Board of Ordnance; nor any person being free of the company of watermen of the river Thames ;*] nor any poor man who has more than one child born in wedlock, is liable to serve personally, or provide a substitute to serve in the militia; and that no person having served personally or by substitute, according to the directions of any act relating to the militia, is obliged to serve again, until by rotation it shall come to his turn; but no person who has served only as a substitute or volunteer in the militia, is by such service exempt from serving again, if he shall be chosen by ballot. And that every person enrolled and serving as an effective member of any corps of yeomanry or volunteers in Great Britain, and who shall be duly returned and certified as such, is exempt from being liable to serve personally or to find a substitute in the militia, so long as he shall continue to be, and be returned or certified to be an effective member, [and, in case the local militia act shall be again carried into execution; all persons enrolled to serve in the local militia are exempt from service, and are not liable to be ballotted to serve in the regular militia for one year, from the expiration of their period of service in the said local militia, but no person is entitled to claim any such exemption, who shall not produce a certificate signed by the commanding officer, of the regiment of local militia in which he may have served, that he attended at the last period of annual training and exercise, or that he was prevented by illness, or bodily in *The part in brackets may be omitted if not applicable to the county in which the return shall be required. firmity, certified to his commanding officer, at the last period of annual training and exercise, or that he was absent by permission of his commanding officer.] Herein fail not. Given under my hand the December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty J. W. day of High-constable of the East part of the hundred in the county of of No. 3. Notice from Constable, of List to be returned. To County of Take notice that you are hereby required, within fourteen days from the date hereof, to to wit. prepare or produce a list in writing to the best of belief of the christian and surname of each and every your man resident in your dwelling-house, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, distinguishing every person in your dwelling-house of such age as aforesaid, claiming to be exempt from serving in the militia, together with the ground of every such exemption; and you are to sign such list with your own name, and to deliver or cause the same to be delivered to me Constable of If the house is divided in distinct stories or apartments occupied distinctly, each distinct occupier is required to make the return. Neglecting to comply with this notice, will subject the party to the fine of ten pounds. Should the list be required under the first sect. of 46 Geo. 3. c. 91. the constables are to leave notices with the householders within seven days after the receipt of the order; the householders to produce their lists within two days, and the constable to make out the list of persons liable to serve in ten days after the delivery of the notice to the householder. No. 4. Summons to Housekeepers for not returning a true to wit. county of in the Whereas complaint and information hath been made before me, W. R., esquire, one of his majesty's justices of the peace |