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men. Hach parish was required to provide a certain number 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 parishes where 
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 26th 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. 
: 3rd April, 1891. 
Mr James Barzsour, V.P., in the Chair. 
Purchase.—Six volumes of the Dumfries Weekly Journal. 
Dovnations. — 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. 
Fingland. 
