A Bill of Free and Sure Defence, Or, an ACT for a Constitutional Revival of the County Power, or Proper Militia of the Realm (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ...in the said year 1821, the Clerk Martial, having, from the said rolls of the several commanders, made out a roll of the entire Legion as effective, at the latter end of-Inly, and distinguishing the then effective state of the several Orders respectively; as well as the deficiency of each; those deficiencies being also added together for showing how many men will be wanting to perfect the entire Legion; the said Clerk shall lay the same before a Committee of Renovation, which shall consist of the Thane of the Thaneguard, with all the Virarions and Tribunes of the Legion, and who, for that duty on that day, shall regularly assemble in the Court of Aray: when the said Committee, or any fire of them, shall have full power and authority to renovate all the decayed parts ol the Legion, by at once completing each and every Order to its original establishment; and for so doing they shall be responsible. LXXVII. That, whether the accession of new strength from the rising generation, shall happen to be more or less than equal to the loss which the Legion may have experienced from the various causes of decay within tho preceding year, the said Committee of Renovation shall restore it to exactly its original legal strength; which, in case the new supply of young men should prove deficient, the Committee shall nevertheless do, by drawing, if necessary, upon the fund of men in the Second Division of the Population; (10) while, in the contrary event, of a redundancy of young men, the said Second Division of the Population will necessarily receive the supernumeraries. LXXVIII. That the Committee of Renovation having equal regard to the entire acqu sitioo of young men, and to the entire waste during the preceding year, to be then repaired for recruiting the...