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case of the death of such Widow, then the eldest Child, or Guardian, 
for the use of the child or’children of such Non-Commissioned Officer, 
or Private Militia-man, until the youngest thereof, shall have attained 
the age of sixteen years, an annuity of five pounds lawful money 
of this Province, and also that every Non-Commissioned Officer, 
or Private of Militia, who in any engagement with an enemy, or by any 
accident or casualty which may occur while on, or performing any dutv 
in actual service, shall be wounded or disabled, so as to be rendered in- 
capable of earning his livelihood, shall be allowed an annuity of nine 
pounds lawful money of this Province, during the time he shall con- 
tinue under such incapacity. 
XX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
so much of an Act passed in the forty-eighth year of his Majesty’s 
reign, intituled, “An Act to explain, amend and reduce to one Act of 
Parliament, the several laws now in being for the raising and training 
the Militia of this Province,” as directs how Militia fines are to be 
disposed of, be and the same is hereby repealed. 
XXI. And it be further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That 
all sums of money arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties, by this 
or the above recited Act imposed, together with a list of such fines, for- 
feitures and penalties shall, as soon after the thirty first day of Decem- 
ber in every year, as practicable, be transmitted by the Magistrate or 
Officer respectively receiving the same, to the Receiver General of this 
Province, to be disposed of as the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or 
Person administering the Government, shall direct, to purposes only 
{hat shall respect the said Militia, and which shall be accounted for to 
the Crown, through the Commissioners of his Majesty’s treasury, for 
the time being, as the Crown shall direct. 
XXII. Provided always, That this present Act shall continue and 
be in force until the first day of January next, and from thence to the 
end of the then next ensuing Session of the Legislature of this Province, 
and no longer. 
Draft of letter Col. Talbot to Capt. Jas. Brock, March, 1812. 
Sir. 
I have the honor to state for the information of Major General 
Brock that I have this day received a letter from The Surveyor Genl. 

*The draft is in substantial accord with the letter sent, which is now 
in the Archives at Ottawa. The draft contains only the first paragraph. 
What follows it is taken from the letter in the Archives. 
