102 Transactions. 



uieu. Eiiuli parisli was requii'ed to provide a certain nnmbc^r o 

 men, and as it happened when the Volunteers were transferred 

 that some parishes had more representatives than were required 

 and others had too few, a scheme was made out by which the 

 supernumeraries were appropriated to the parislies wliere 

 deficiencies existed. Subsequently the regiments were recruited 

 either by voluntary enrolment or by conscription. There is 

 evidence that annually or less frequently they were called out 

 for twenty-eight days' service. Correspondence more than once 

 ensued, and at last a law suit was carried on as to their right to 

 drill on the Kingholm Merse. At length the long time of 

 suspense came to an end, and in the minutes of the Court of 

 Lieutenancy of 2Gth July, 1814, there is mention of a letter from 

 the Lord-Lieutenant, enclosing a letter to His Grace from Lord 

 Sidmouth, Secretary of State, transmitting a resolution of the 

 House of Lords expressing the thanks of that House to the 

 several corps of Local Militia, of Yeomanry, and of Cavalry and 

 Infantry which had been formed in Great Britain and Ireland 

 during the course of the war, and requesting that the Lord- 

 Lieutenant will make the necessary communication of the same 

 to the different corps of the County of Dumfries. In 1814 the 

 Militia were disembodied, not to be again embodied till the time 

 of the Crimean War. In 1814 the Volunteers also ceased to 

 serve, and no similar force came into existence till 1859, when 

 the foolish speeches of certain French colonels called to arms the 

 great citizen force which year after year is becoming more and 

 more efficient. 



ord Api-il, 1891. 

 Mr James Barbour, V.P., in the Chair. 



Purclmse. — Six volumes of the Dumfries Weekly Journal. 



Dotiations. — The Report of Marlborough College Natural 

 History Society, 1890; Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological 

 Society, 1890; The Essex Naturalist, October and December, 

 1890; Annals and Transactions of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences, 1889-90; Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of 

 Science, 1889-90 (New York State); Four Geological Specimens, 

 presented by Mr James Dairon ; Specimens of Roses, by Mr J. 

 Fin gland. 



