the Parish of Sackville, in the County of Westmorland, held POLL BOOK for the Election of Commissioners of Sewers for on Tuesday the [Form same as preceding.] (D) BOOK for the Election of Commissioners of Sewers for the Parish of in the Parish of , as the case may be,) in the County of PROPRIETORS' NAMES. James Jones, 100 100 100 10 80 10 80 80 200 200 50 50 TITLE XI. OF THE MILITIA. CHAPTER 73. OF BATTALIONS, REGIMENTS, AND COMPANIES, AND THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF. Section. 1. The Militia, of whom and how formed. 2. Battalions, how formed. 3. Regiments, how formed. 4. Companies. 5. Militia inspection and exercise, how often, when, and by whom ordered. 6. Battalion drill, how often, how ordered, distance of travel. 7. Persons procuring substitutes, from what exempt. 8. Men shall appear, when ordered out, with arms, &c.; same to be inspected, by whose order. 9. Allowance to Quarter Master. 10. Power of Commander in Chief. In case of invasion, &c., who exempt from call. 11. When on actual service, where Militia can be ordered to march ; disobedience of orders, forfeiture. 12. When called into actual service, how drafted. 13. Exempts, how disposed of in case of actual invasion. 14. Persons once drafted, how far exempt from another draft. 15. Firemen in cities or towns, where to do duty. Section 16. Quakers drafted; substitute, how ob tained. 17. Any person drafted refusing to go or find substitute, proceedings. 18. Volunteers, how and under what rules 19. Pay of Militia in actual service. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Coloured people, how enrolled, attached, and officered. Boats to be built in case of invasion, by whose orders. Artillery and Sea Fencible companies, how and by whom established; mode and time of drilling. Neglect of officers and men of Sea Fencibles, forfeiture. Cavalry, how and by whom established. 26. Arms and Accoutrements, how and by whom called in. 27. Inspecting Officers, by whom appointed, 28. If fines, &c., prove insufficient to meet 30. 1. The Militia shall consist of every white male inhabitant from sixteen to sixty years of age, being British subjects, who shall be enrolled and formed into Battalions, Regiments, and Companies, as the Commander in Chief shall direct; in insular and remote situations, where the inhabitants do not exceed eighty, they may be formed into one Company. He may also divide the same County into two or more Battalions, prescribing the respective limits, and he may form two or more Battalions into Regiments. 2. Battalions shall be formed by Counties; if a County be sufficiently populous, the Commander in Chief may divide the same into two or more Battalions, defining the districts. 3. A Regiment shall consist of two or more Battalions as the Commander in Chief may direct. 4. A Company shall consist of not more than sixty rank and file, and be commanded by one Captain and two Subalterns, and as many Sergeants and Corporals as the Officer commanding the Company shall appoint. 5. The Militia, for inspection and martial exercise, shall assemble one day in each year, according to the order of the Commander in Chief, interfering as little as possible with seed time and harvest; but no person shall be required to travel more than twelve miles from his usual place of residence to attend the training of the Battalion or Division to which he belongs. 6. Each Battalion (persons above forty five years of age excepted) shall rendezvous by Companies two days in each year for discipline and improving in martial exercise, according to the order of the Commanding Officer of the Regiment or Battalion, but no Company shall be required to travel more than twelve miles to its place of rendezvous. 7. Any person not being a substitute, embodied and on actual service for twenty days, or having procured a substitute for such service, shall not be required to attend Battalion or Company muster during the year such service is performed. 8. Every person enrolled, when ordered out, shall appear with arms, ammunition, and accoutrements as issued by the Government, or if he choose, with his own equally good and in complete order, and shall submit to such inspection of the same as may be ordered by the Commanding Officer of the Battalion. 9. Every Quarter Master shall be allowed ten per cent. in his general account of moneys for all sums received and paid by him, this allowance to cease when on actual service and on full pay. 10. The Commander in Chief, in case of actual invasion or imminent danger thereof, if he think it expedient, shall call out into actual service the Militia and exempts (except Ministers of the Gospel, Millers, and Ferrymen,) or any part thereof. 11. The Militia and exempts when so called into actual service, may be ordered to march to any part of the Province, and shall obey all lawful commands of superior Officers, under the penalty of incurring the forfeitures for disobedience of orders. 12. When the Militia are called out into actual service, a draft by ballot shall be made from each Company, according to the number fit for duty, on the oath of the Commanding Officer of such Company, to the best of his knowledge (if required) of all persons from eighteen to fifty years of age, the ballot shall take place in the presence of a Justice; if there be no Justice residing near the place of ballot, then in the presence of at least three respectable freeholders exempt by age from such draft. 13. In case of actual invasion, all persons between eighteen and fifty years of age, being exempts, (except Ministers of the Gospel, one Miller to each grist mill, and one Ferryman to each established ferry) not belonging to any Company, shall be formed into a Company by and under the direction of the Commanding Officer of the Battalion, and shall be liable to the same draft as any other Company in proportion to their numbers then fit for duty; each person drafted shall go in his own person, or find a sufficient substitute. 14. Should the Militia be called out more than once, no person who has been once drafted shall be again drafted until all the others belonging to the same Company are drafted. 15. Firemen appointed to Engines in any city or town, shall be exempt from duty beyond the limits of the same respectively. 16. If a certified Quaker be drafted, and refuse to find a sufficient substitute, the Officer commanding the Company to which he belongs shall hire a substitute at his expense, not exceeding ten pounds. 17. Should any person drafted neglect to go or procure a substitute, and be fined as provided by this Title, another person shall be drafted in his stead, who upon complying with such draft, shall receive the half of the fine; the draft shall take place as often as the person drafted refuses to obey. 18. In case of invasion, volunteers, being in the opinion of the Field Officer or Officers of the Regiment or Battalion to which they belong, of able body, may be accepted, sworn, and subject to the same provisions as if they had been drafted. 19. When the Militia, or any part thereof, are called out into actual service, they shall be entitled to the same pay, according to their respective rank, as Her Majesty's regular troops respectively, to be reckoned from the day of march from rendezvous for actual service, until dismissed by the Commander in Chief, each man to receive one day's pay for every fifteen miles travel to his usual place of residence. 20. Each non-commissioned officer, drummer, fifer, bugler, and private, shall receive from the Province Treasury thirty shillings per month for every month they shall respectively have remained on actual service, not exceeding five pounds for each time they shall have been called into actual service, to be paid out of the Treasury. 21. All male people of colour between sixteen and fifty years of age in each County, shall be formed into Companies as expedient, attached to the Battalions within the district where they reside, officered as the Commander in Chief may direct, and be pioneers to the Battalions to which they are attached, and be subject to like drafts, duties, and penalties, in case of actual service, as the Militia. 22. In case of invasion, actual or threatened, the Commander in Chief may direct the building of such a number of boats for transporting the Militia as he may deem necessary, the expense of building not to exceed four hundred pounds. 23. The Commander in Chief may establish one or more Artillery Companies in any County or District, and determine the number of men attached to each Company; and shall also cause one or more Companies of Sea Fencibles, consisting of sea-faring people, to form a part of the Battalions of the Districts in which they are formed, and shall direct their mode of drilling, and instructing the officers and men of the same Companies; but the time required of the said officers and men shall not exceed that required by other persons belonging to the Militia. 24. Should the officers or men of the Companies of Sea Fencibles neglect to discharge the duties required under the direction of the Commander in Chief, they shall severally incur the like penalties as other persons of the like rank in the Battalions to which they belong, to be recovered and applied as provided for by this Title. 25. The Commander in Chief may establish such a number of Cavalry as he may judge expedient for the service, under such regulations as he may make, the persons enrolling themselves being subject to the like pains and penalties for any breach thereof as provided for other persons belonging to the Militia. 26. The Commander in Chief shall issue all orders for cal |