Allowances fhall until the Expiration of Three Calendar Months next after the Dat of fuch Order, except in the Cafes herein-after mentioned. IX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the Allowances be paid Weekly. under and by virtue of this A&t fhall be claimed and paid weekly; and that no Wife of any fuch Militia Man, nor any other Perfon on Be half of fuch Wife, or of the Family of any fuch Militia Man, shall be entitled to receive at any one Time more than Two Weeks Arrears of any Allowance to fuch Wife and Family under or by virtue of this A&. tors of Excife. Allowances fhall X. And be it further enacted, That every fuch Weekly Allowance be repaid Quarto be paid under this A&t by fuch Baronial Collector or Treafurer terly by Collec- refpectively to the Family of any Militia Man, fhall be repaid Quarterly to fuch Baronial Collector and Treasurer respectively by the Collector of His Majefty's Excife for the District in which fuch Barony, Town, or City fhall be fituate out of any publick Money in his Hands; and the Sums fo paid by fuch Collector of Excife fhall be allowed to him in his Accounts, on fuch Collector of Excife producing the Receipts of fuch Baronial Collector or Treasurer refpe&tively for the fame, and alfo producing the several other Documents by this A& required to be kept by him. If Baronial Collector, &c. has not Money in Hand, he thall certify fame to Collector of Exeife, who fhall thereupon pay Allowances. Abstract of all Orders fhall be tranfmitted by Collector to the Clerk of the Peace, and Or ders may be cancelled or varied by the Seffions. XI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if fuch Baronial Collector or Treasurer fhall not at the Time when any Application fhall be made to him to pay any Allowances under this Act, have in his Hands fufficient Money for Payment of the fame, fuch Collector or Treasurer fhall and may and is hereby required, from Time to Time as Occafion fhall require, to certify the fame to the Collector of the Excife for the District, and it shall thereupon be lawful for the faid Collector of the Excife, and he is hereby authorized and required to remit or pay out of fuch publick Monies as may be in his Hands, to the faid Baronial Collector or Treasurer refpectively, at leaft Once in every Month, a Sum fufficient to fatisfy and pay the Monthly Amount of the Sums which fhall then be payable under and by virtue of the feveral Abstracts which fhall then be in his Poffeffion under the Provifions of this A&t. XII. And be it further enacted, That every fuch Baronial Collector fhall tranfmit to the Clerk of the Peace of the County, Town, or City within which the Barony for which he is Collector fhall be fituate, and the Treasurer of any Town or City fhall transmit to the Clerk of the Peace there, Three Days previous to each Quarter Seffions, an Abstract of all Orders which he fhall have received as aforesaid since the laft preceding Quarter Seffions, to be by the said Clerk of the Peace laid before the Juftices at fuch Seffions, and it shall be lawful for the Juftices there to set aside or alter any fuch Order of any fuch Juftices, which upon due Inquiry in open Court upon Oath fhall appear to have been fraudulently obtained, or not to be warranted by this Act; and in any fuch Cafe, fuch Juftices at fuch Seffions fhall make an Order that fuch Baronial Collector or Treasurer fhall bring in or cause to be brought in the Order of fuch Juftices, and deliver the fame to the Clerk of the Peace for fuch County, City, Town, or Place; and fuch Collector or Treafuter fhall within Seven Days after the Service of fuch Order on him, bring in and deliver, or caufe to be brought in and delivered, the faid Order of fuch Juftices accordingly, to fuch Clerk of the Peace, who fhall then cancel the faid Order, if the fame fhall be wholly fet afide, or if the fame fhall be altered, he fhall shall write under the fame a Copy of the Order for altering the fame, and fhall in that Cafe restore the fame to fuch Baronial Collector or Treasurer, who fhall proceed thereupon, and the fame shall be counterfigned in the fame Manner in all Reípects as is herein-before directed with refpect to any fuch Order. &c. XIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if fuch Baronial Baronial ColCollector or Treasurer refpe&ively fhall have Reason to believe or fhall lector thall stop receive Notice from the Collector of Excife of the District, that he has Allowance in Reason to believe that by the Death of any of the Family of any Militia cafe of Death, Man, or by any other Circumftance, the Allowance to fuch Family ought to be topped or leffened in Amount, then and in either of fuch Cafes it fhall be lawful for fuch Baronial Collector or Treasurer, and he is hereby required to ftop or leffen fuch Allowance accordingly, until Two Justices of the Peace fhall direct him otherwise by Writing under their Hands and Seals. XIV. Provided alfo, and be it further enacted. That no Allowance fhall be ordered or paid under this Act to the Wife or Family of any Perfon ferving in the Militia for any longer Period than fuch Perfon fhall continue to serve and remain embodied in actual Service; nor in any Cafe in which the Wife, in refpect of or by whom any fuch Relief is demanded, fhall follow the Regiment, Battalion, or Corps in which her Hufband shall serve. Allowance fhall continue only during the Ser vice of Militia Man. Militia Men fhall make Monthly Re turns to Adju- State of their XV. And, in order to prevent Frauds in any of the Matters afore- Adjutant fhall faid, be it enacted, That the Adjutant of every Regiment or Battalion regifter Certi of Militia fhall keep a Regifter of all Certificates which fall from Time ficates. to Time be granted by the Colonel or other Commanding Officer as aforefaid. XVI. And be it further enacted, That every Serjeant, Corporal, Drummer, and Private, to whom fuch Certificate fhall have been given, fhail on fome Day between the Seventeenth and Twenty-fourth Day of every Month, deliver or caufe to be delivered to the Adjutant of his Regiment, or to the Perfon acting as fuch, a Return in Writing fubfcribed by himfeif either with his Name or Mark, and ftating whether, fince the obtaining fuch Certificate or fince his laft Return, any, and if any, then how many, and which of his Family, and of what Ages refpectively, have or hath died, or have or hath received or become entitled to any and what Maintenance, Provifion, or Property, and to what Amount, and whether his Wife, if he be married, follows the Regiment; and every Change that fhall take place in any of the faid Refpects in the Family of any fuch Militia Man fhall be noted by fuch Adjutant in his Regifter aforefaid, according to fuch Return, or according to the Truth, if the fame fhall have come to his Knowledge by any other Means. of Promotions, Vacancies, &c. XVII. And be it further enacted, That the Adjutant of every Adjutant fhall Regiment, Battalion, or Corps of the faid Militia, fhall within Seven make Monthly Days after the Twenty-fourth Day of every Month during the Time Returns to Colthe Militia to which he fhall belong fhall remain embodied or in actual lector of Excife, Service, make a Return to each and every Collector of Excife within whole Diftrict the Family of any Militia Man in his Regiment entitled to any of the said Allowances fhall refide, and fhall in every fuch Return fet forth a particular Lift of fuch Promotions and Vacancies, and of fuch Deaths, Desertions, and other Cafualties, if any, as may have occurred among fuch of the Militia Men of the faid Regiment as shall 49 Geo. III. have Collector of Ex cife fhall acknow Jedge and note the Adjutant's Returns, and the Baronial Collector, &c. have declared their Families to be refident within the District of the Collector to whom fuch Return is so made, and of al: fuch Alterations as may have taken place in the Family of any of them in Manner herein-before mentioned; and if no fuch Promotion, Vacancy, Death, Defertion, Cafualty, or Alteration fhall have happened, then fuch Adjutant fhall by fuch Return certify to that Effect. XVIII. And be it enacted, That every fuct Collector of Excife fhall immediately on the Receipt of any fuch Return, tranfmit to every fuch Adjutant a written Acknowledgment of the Receipt thereof, fpecifying the Dite thereof, and fhell forthwith enter at the tranfmit them to Foot of each Abstract fo filed by him as aforefaid, all new Matters refpectively which fhall be noted in fuch Return as aforefaid, and shall thereupon fign the faid Return, and fend or deliver the fame to the proper Baronial Collector or Treasurer as aforefaid, who fhall also enter the faid Matters at the Foot of the Orders made by Juttices of Peace fo kept by him refpectively, and fhail then fign the faid Return, and return the fame to the faid Collector of Excife, who thail file the fame together with the Abstracts aforefaid. In Default of Quarterly Orders Allowance fhall to Returns. XIX. And be it enacted. That from and after the First Day of every Month no Payment fhall be made by any fuch Baronial Collector or Treafurer to the Family of any Militia Man until fuch R-turn as afore said for the preceding Month fhall have been fo received from the Adjutant of the Regiment to which fuch Militia Man fhall belong, or the Perfon acting as fuch, and fo fent or delivered to fuch Baronial Collector or Treafuter as aforefaid; and that from and after the End of every Three Calendar Months from the Date of any Order of Two Juftices as aforefaid, no Payment fhall be made by any fuch Baronial Collector or Treasurer to the Family of any Militia Man until a new Order of Two Juftices of the Peace fhall have been received by fuch Baronial Collector or Treafurer in Manner aforefaid. XX. And be it further enacted, That when any fuch Entry fhall be paid recording be duly made at the Foot of any fuch Order or Abitract, or any Alteration fhall be made in any fuch Order, then and from thence. forth fuch weekly Sum, and no other, fhall be paid and payable to the Family therein mentioned, as would have been payable to the faid Family by the Provifions of this Act if an Order for Payment had been made and given by Two Juftices, according to the Circumftances of fuch Family at the Time of making fuch Entry or Alteration. Certificates and Orders under former Acts, hall be progeeded on as if made under this Act. XXI. Provided always, and he it enacted, That ali Certificates granted under the faid recited Acts of the Forty-third and Fortyfourth Years of His Majelty's Reign, and all Orders made by any Justices thereon in Manner provided by the faid A&ts or either of them, fhall ftand and be good, valid, and effectual as if made under this A&t; and that the feveral Baronial Collectors and Treafurers with whom the faid Certificates and Orders fhall have been depofited, or who now have the Cultody thereof refpectively, fhall immediately after the Commencement of this A&t fend the fame, together with Abstracts thereof, to the Collectors of Excife of their refpective Districts in Manner herein-before mentioned, and as if the fame had been granted and made under this Act; and all further and fubfequent Proceedings fhall be taken thereon, and ali Sums which fhall afterwards become due thereunder fhail be paid in the fame Manner in all Rfpects and fubject to all the fame Rettrictions, Conditions, Rules, Regulations, and and Provifions as are herein contained, in the fame Manner in all Refpects as if the fame had been granted and made refpectively under this A& and not otherwife. Collectors' XXII. And be it further enacted, That in order to recompense Grand Juries the faid Baronial Collectors, Treasurers of Counties or Cities, for the thall make PreTrouble and Expence which they may feverally incur by virtue of this fentments for A&t, it fhall be lawful for the Grand Jury of each County, Town, or Trouble. City, at each Affizes, and for the Grand Juries of the County of Dublin, and County of the City of Dublin, at each Prefenting Term, to prefent any Sums they fhall think reasonable to be raised off the County at large, to be applied and paid as fuch Grand Juries fhall direct, to the faid respective Collectors and Treasurers, over and above all Sums or Allowances to which they or any of them are or may be entitled by virtue of any other Law or Laws then in force, as a Reward for their Trouble and Expence in carrying the Provisions of this A& into Execution: Provided always, that fuch Grand Jury fhall be fatisfied by the Oaths of fuch Collectors and Treasurers refpectively, or otherwife, that fuch Collectors and Treasurers have duly paid the feveral Allowances to the Families of Militia Men, in Manner directed by this A&t. Neglect, sol XXIII. And be it further enacted, That if any Collector of a Ba- Penalty on ronial Cefs, Treasurer, Clerk of the Peace, Officer of the Peace, or Officers for Collector of Excife, fhall wilfully neglect or refuse to carry the Provifions of this Act or any of them into Execution, and fhall be thereof convicted by Prefentment or Indictment at the Affizes, or, if in the County or City of Dublin, in the Court of King's Bench, every fuch Perfon fo offending fhall be fined, at the Difcretion of the Court, any Sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds. XXIV. And be it further enacted, That if any Collector of the Penalty on BaBaronial Cefs, or Treasurer of a County or City, fheli on Demand ronial Collector, duly made, refuse or neglect to pay and fatisfy any Sum or Sums of &c. not paying Money then payable to the Family of any Militia Man by virtue of Allowances, 51, this Act, every fuch Collector or Treasurer fo refufing or neglecting to make fuch Payment, fhali for every fuch Neglect forfeit the Sum of Five Pounds, to be recovered upon Conviction of the faid Offender before any Juftice of the Peace for the County, City, or Place, where the Offence fall be committed; which faid Juftice is hereby authorized and required, upon Information exhibited, or Complaint made by the Party aggrieved in that Behalf, to fummon the Party accused, and to examine into the Matter of Fact, and upon Proof thereof, on the Oath of one Witness, not being the Party entitled to receive fuch Sum or Sums of Money, to give Judgment for fuch Penalty, to be levied by Diftrefs and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, in cafe the fame fhall not be forthwith paid. by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of fuch Juftice, caufing the Overplus (if any), after deducting the Charges of fuch Diftrefs and Sale, to be rendered to the Party, and the Penalty fo adjudged shall be paid to the Ufe of the Party fo aggrieved as aforefaid. XXV. And be it enacted, That every fuch Conviction fhall be in the Form here following, or in fome other Form of Words of the fame Import; (that is to fay); BE it remembered, That A. B. Collector of Cefs in the Barony in the County of of of the County of the Town of [or Treasurer or County of the City • of Form of Conviction for fuch Offence. • of Secretary at War fall iflue the Sam neceffary for the Pay of the Regular and Local Militia, Rates herein mentioned. as the Cafe may be] is convicted before me C. D. one of the Juftices of the Peace for the faid County, of not having paid the Weckiv Allowance due on the laft pat, to the Family of Day of a Serjeant, [Corporal, • Drummer, or Private, as the Cafe may be] actually ferving in the Regiment of Militia, although the fame was duly demanded of him laft paft. Witnefs my Hand in the Year on the Day of Day of And every fuch Conviction on the faid or any other Form of the fame "A&t may be altered this Seffion. § 26. Commencement of A& An Act for defraying the Charge of the Pay and Clothing of the Militia and Local Militia in Great Britain for the Year One thoufand eight hundred and nine. [10th June 1809.] WHEREAS it is neceffary that Provifion should be made for defraying the Charge of the Pay and Clothing of the Regular Militia (when difembodied) and Local Militia in Great Britain, for One Year from the Twenty-fifth Day of December One thoufand eight hundred and eight;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That in every County, Riding, or Place in England, and in every County, Stewartiy, City, or Place in Scotland, where the Regular Militia or Local Militia is or fhall be raised, the Secretary at War for the Time being is hereby authorized and empowered, and required to caufe to be iffued and paid aceording to the the whole Sum required for the Regular Militia (when difembodied) and Local Militia respectively, in the Manner and for the feveral Ufes herein-after mentioned; (that is to fay), for the Pay of the faid Regular Militia or Local Militia at the Rate of Eight Shillings a Day for each Adjutant, where an Adjutant is appointed; and at the Rate of Five Shillings a Day for each Quarter Master, where a Quarter-Mafter is appointed; and at the Rate of One Shilling and Sixpence a Day for each Serjeant refident at the Head Quarters of the Regiment, Battalion, or Corps, with the Addition of Two Shillings and Sixpence a Week for each Serjeant Major, where a Serjeant-Major is appointed; and at the Rate of One Shilling and Two-pence a Day for each Corporal fo refident as aforefaid; and at the Rate of One Shilling a Day for each Drummer fo refident as aforefaid, with the Addition of Sixpence a Day for each Drum-Major, where a Drum Major is appointed; and alfo at the Rate of Four-pence per Man for each Private Man and Drummer, for defraying the contingent Expences of each Regiment, Battalion, or Corps; and alfo for the Clothing of the Regular Militia (when difembodied) or Local Militia for fuch County, Riding, Stewartry, City, or Place, at the Rate of Four Pounds Ten Shillings for each Serjeant-Major, Two Pounds for each Corporal, Four Pounds One Shilling and Nine-pence for each Drum-Major, Three Pounds One Shilling and Nine-pence for each Drummer, and One Pound Nineteen Shillings and Sixpence for each Private Man; and that fuch |