shall be entitled to purchase Ground for building and erecting such House, in the same Manner as they are now by Law entitled to purchase Ground for building County Gaols.

• XXXII. And Whereas the Sums heretofore allowed to be pre⚫sented for such Purposes have been in some Instances found quite insufficient, and therefore larger Sums have been expended, or larger Rents agreed for, or both; and it is expedient and reasonable that such extra Expences should be defrayed

in manner aforesaid; Be it therefore enacted, That in all Cases Extra Expences in which the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Go- for providing vernors of Ireland for the Time being shall deem any such Places for deAgreement or Expenditure to have been proper and necessary, and Stores of positing Arms and that the same shall be so certified to the Clerk of the Crown Militia of Irein manner aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for the land to be paid. Grand Jury of the County to present the same, to be raised in the same Manner in all respects as they could or might do under this Act, in case of an Agreement or Expenditure under or in pursuance of a previous Permission or Order made under this Act. XXXIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall and Lord Lieutemay be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor nant may order or Governors of Ireland for the Time being (if he or they shall the Arms of see sufficient Cause for so doing), to order and direct that the land to be deArms, Accoutrements, and other Stores, or any Part thereof, posited in the belonging to any Regiment or Battalion of the said Militia, shall, Ordnance at any Time while such Regiment or Battalion shall not be embodied or in actual Service, be conveyed to and deposited and Dublin. kept in any of His Majesty's Ordnance Stores in the City of Dublin, or to and in any such Ordnance Store, or to and in any other Place of Security in any other Part in Ireland, as he or they shall from time to time order or direct, and under such Rules and Regulations as he or they shall think fit and proper in that Behalf.

XXXIV. And be it further enacted, That all Penalties and Costs and Charges of Suit, and all Sums of Money for which any Person or Persons is or are or may be made answerable or liable under or by virtue of this Act in relation to the Militia of Ireland, shall be the Currency of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and shall be recovered in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Dublin, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, wherein no Essoign, Wager of Law, Privilege, or Protection, nor more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed.

XXXV. And be it further enacted, That all Provisions, Directions, Clauses, Matters, and Things in this Act contained, relating to Counties and to Regiments of Militia respectively, shall extend and be construed to extend to all Ridings, Shires, Stewartries, Cities, and Places, and to all Battalions, Corps, and Independent Companies respectively, and to the Corps of Miners of Cornwall and Devon, as fully and effectually as if they were respectively and severally repeated in every such Provision, Direction, Clause, and with relation to every such Matter or Thing.

Militia of Ire

Stores in

Recovery of
Penalties and
Costs in

Ireland.

Provisions of this Act relating to Counties shall extend to Ridings, Stewartries, &c.

XXXVI. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall con- Continuance of tinue in force until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand Act. eight hundred and twenty eight.

TABLE

TABLE to which this Act refers.

SCALE of RATES of Remuneration to the Clerks of General and Subdivision Meetings of Lieutenancy in Great Britain, including the Clerks of the Tower Hamlets and the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon, and to Schoolmasters, Constables, and other Officers in Scotland, for carrying into Execution Two Acts of Parliament passed in the Forty second Year of the Reign of King George the Third, Cap. 90. and 91., and other Acts relating to the Militia.

ALLOWANCES TO THE CLERKS OF GENERAL MEETINGS.

1. For Trouble in calling a General Meeting by circular Letters
or Advertisements (no separate Charge being made for
writing the Letters or framing the Advertisements)
2. For attending General Meetings, at which the Statutory
Quorum of Lieutenancy shall be present, each
For each Meeting which shall be necessarily adjourned by
the Clerk in consequence of the Absence of the Lord
Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenants

Which Allowances are to be in full for engrossing
Minutes, &c.

3. For filling up printed Precepts to the High or Chief Constable of each Subdivision, Hundred, Lathe, Rape, or Wapentake in England and Wales, including the Tower Hamlets and the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon, to return Lists, each

For filling up printed Precepts to the Schoolmasters, Chief Constables, or other Officers in Scotland, to return Lists, each 4. For writing the annual Advertisement for regulating, arranging, and fixing the First Subdivision Meeting of the Deputy Lieutenants for receiving the parochial Lists and hearing Appeals

5. For arranging Subdivision Lists, and making Abstracts
thereof, Schedule (D.), for the Privy Council, the Secre-
tary of State, and the Secretary at War, the latter Copy
to be annexed to the Clerk's Accounts as a Voucher;
videlicet,

In Counties furnishing a Quota of 200 Men or under in
the Original Number of the Militia

In Counties furmshing from 201 to 400 Men

6. For striking the Proportion of Men to serve for the several
Hundreds, Rapes, Lathes, Wapentakes, or other Divisions
of a County in England and Wales, and for each re-
spective Parish or other Division of a County or Stewartry
in Scotland, under the several Acts of Parliament relating
to the regular Militia, when necessary to be done:
In Counties furnishing a Quota of 200 Men, or under
Ditto

Ditto

Ditto

Ditto

from 201 to 400 Men

7. For Trouble in engrossing in a Book the Names of the £ s. d. Men contained in each Subdivision Return of Enrolment

151 to 250 Names

251 Names and upwards

8. For drawing out fair Copy of the Lord Lieutenant's Annual Return of the Militia for the County, containing the Number, Names, and Rank of the Officers, and the Number of the Noncommissioned Officers, Drummers, and Private Men :

In Counties furnishing One Regiment, Battalion, or

No separate Charge being made for Attendance upon
the Lord Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenants for his
or their Signatures thereto.

Note. This Allowance is of course only charge-
able by the General Clerks of those Counties
in Scotland which furnish the greatest Propor-
tion of Men towards the Formation of the
Regiment, Battalion, or Corps.

9. For Stationery :

To the Clerk of General Meetings in a County where
the Number in the original Quota of the Militia is under
300 Men

from 901 Men and upwards

10. For Copyings, Correspondence, &c. &c.

To the Clerk of General Meetings in a County where the
Number in the original Quota of the Militia is 200
Men, or under

In a County furnishing from 201 to 400 Men

Ditto

Ditto

Ditto

from 401 to 600 Men

from 601 to 800 Men
from 801 Men and upwards

11. The actual Amount expended for printing and publishing
the Advertisements, for Postages, Expresses, and Mes-
sengers, to be allowed upon an Account specifying each
Article of Postage, &c. certified specially by the Lieu-
tenancy, whose Certificate shall state that the same were
necessary and actually performed.

The Charge for printing and publishing Advertisements
is invariably to be supported by the Receipt of the
Person to whom paid.

TRAINING AND EXERCISE.

12. For filling up printed Notices to the Clerks of Subdivision Meetings, of the Time and Place fixed by the Lord Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenants for assembling the Militia to be trained and exercised, each Notice

0 0

13. For making out correct Abstracts from the Adjutant's or
other Commanding Officer's Returns, Schedule (F.), in
the Form Schedule (G.), for His Majesty's Secretary of
State for the Home Department, in Counties in England
and Scotland, furnishing a Quota towards the Formation
of an entire Regiment or Battalion

In Counties in England, Wales, and Scotland, furnishing
One Regiment, Battalion, or Corps

Ditto
Ditto

Two

Three

Ditto

Ditto

ALLOWANCES TO CLERKs of subdiVISION MEETINGS.

14. For Trouble in calling a subdivision Meeting by Advertisement, no separate Charge being made for writing Letters or framing the Advertisement

Or, for calling a Meeting by circular Letters to the Deputy Lieutenants, the Adjutant, or other Commanding Officer, (no Charge being made for the Draft) for each Letter 15. For attending Subdivision Meetings, for each of the Three first or principal Meetings at which the Statutory Quorum of Lieutenancy shall be present, viz.

For receiving Lists and hearing Appeals,

For balloting,

For enrolling,

And for the Meeting held to apportion the Deficiencies
among the Parishes, &c. when necessary to be done:
and also, for calling out the Quota or Apportionment
of the Subdivision to be trained and exercised; which
Allowance shall be in full for engrossing Minutes and
making up Lists

And for each Meeting held by Adjournment to complete the
Business of any or either of the Three first or principal
Meetings above enumerated, which Allowance shall be in
full for engrossing Minutes and making up Lists
And for each Meeting which shall have been summoned, but
which is necessarily postponed by the Subdivision Clerk
in consequence of the Absence of the Deputy Lieu-

tenants

16. For filling up printed Precepts to the Chief or High Constables in England and Wales, including the Tower Hamlets and Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon, to give Notice of the Number of Men apportioned to serve for each Parish, and to issue out their Orders to the Petty Constables to serve Notices upon ballotted Men, each Precept

And, for filling up printed Precepts to the Schoolmasters,

Chief Constables, Constables, or other Officers in Scotland, for the Performance of similar Duty, each Precept 17. For Trouble in amending the Returns of Persons liable to serve in the Regular Militia, by taking out the Names of all Persons who may appeal, and whose Appeals or Claims of Exemption have been allowed, and inserting the Names of any Persons that have been omitted to be inserted, and in numbering the Returns, and making out

£ s. d.

100

200

3 0 0 4 0 0

050

010

2 2 0

150

0 15 0

006

006

the Tickets for the Ballot, after the Rate of Two Pounds
for every One thousand Names of Persons returned liable
to serve, and so in Proportion for a greater or smaller
Number of Men

18. For making out the Annual Abstracts of Lists, Schedule (C),
for the Use of the Clerk of General Meetings, where the
original Quota or Appointment of the Subdivision is
50 Men and under

From 51 to 150 Men
From 151 to 250 Men

From 251 Men and upwards

4 4 0

19. For making out fair and true Copies of Lists of Men en-
rolled for each Subdivision of a County in Great Britain,
including the Tower Hamlets and the Stannaries of
Cornwall and Devon, for the Use of the Clerk of General
Meetings, Schedule (E.), and the Colonel or Commandant
of the Regiment of the County, viz.

For a Roll containing 50 Names, and under
from 51 to 150 Names

from 151 to 250 Names

from 251 Names and upwards

20. For Stationery to the Clerk of a Subdivision furnishing Men towards the Quota of a County, in the following Proportions, viz.

For a Subdivision furnishing 50 Men and under

from 51 to 150 Men

from 151 to 250 Men

from 251 Men and upwards

21. For Correspondence and Copyings to the Clerk of a Subdivision furnishing Men towards the Quota of a County in the following Proportions, viz.

For a Subdivision furnishing 50 Men and under

from 51 to 150 Men

from 151 to 250 Men
from 251 Men and upwards

22. The actual Amount expended for printing and publishing
Advertisements, for Postages, Expresses, and Messengers,
to be allowed upon an Account specifying each Article
of Postage, and specially certified by the Lieutenancy,
whose Certificate shall state that the same was necessary,
and actually performed.

The Charge for printing and publishing Advertisements
is invariably to be supported by the Receipt of the
Person to whom paid.

23. For Trouble in apportioning and distributing to the Con-
stables of the several Townships, Parishes, &c. within the
limits of the Subdivision, the various Forms of Schedules,
&c.

For a Subdivision furnishing 50 Men and under

from 51 to 150 Men

550