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at. this period 300,000 Volunteers were enrolled. We can 
show that Dumfriesshire was not lukewarm in the cause. 
After war was again declared, military preparations were made 
under new Acts of Parliament. The Militia Ballot was made to 
embrace men between 18 and 45, and of those liable to serve there 
were reported to be in Dumfriesshire 5597. The quota balloted 
for was 284. The men were assembled on April 5th, 1803. 
There is no evidence that on this occasion there was any dis- 
content similar to that which existed at the embodiment of the 
Militia in 1797. In nearly every case the men actually enrolled 
were substitutes. The penalty for not serving or not procuring 
a substitute was £10, but a little later (26th May) in the same 
year it was raised to £15. On the 15th July, 1803, there was 
a special meeting of the Court of Lieutenancy, when such resolu- 
tions were passed as became what is termed in the minute ‘a 
crisis when the empire is threatened with destruction, its 
existence as a State menaced with annihilation, and its in- 
habitants at large held out as objects of general pillage and 
confiscation.” It was agreed that the whole inhabitants between 
fifteen and sixty years of age, and any healthy men who were 
above. that age, should be invited to meet the Deputy- 
Lieutenants of the districts in their respective parish churches, 
and should be asked in what manner it is their intention to act 
should their country be invaded—whether (1) by engaging to 
assemble in arms either mounted or on foot in the event of 
invasion; (2) by engaging to serve as pioneers ; (3) by engaging 
to serve in the removal of live stock ; (4) by engaging to provide 
carts, horses, and drivers for the removal of dead stock or the 
transport of military stores, provisions, or troops; (5) by en- 
gaging to furnish Government for its armies with flour and 
bread. It was also agreed to intimate to the inhabitants that in 
the event of its being necessary all live stock were to be driven 
inland—live stock in the maritime parishes and towns of Annan. 
dale and Eskdale to the upper districts of Eskdale and those 
adjoining in Selkirk ; and the live stock from the maritime and 
town parishes of Nithsdale to the districts connected with the 
source of the Cairn, as well within the Stewartry of Kirkcud- 
bright as in the County of Dumfries. 
Among other resolutions the meeting resolved “that the in- 
habitants he: informed: that however formidable and numerous 
