100 EXHIBITS. 
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Mr M. H. M‘Kerrow—A Volume in his possession contain- 
ing a verbatim report of the evidence taken in a Court of Session 
action for damages for libel brought by Mr Armstrong, writer 
(see above). The jury awarded Mr Armstrong twenty guineas. 
24th March, 1916.—Mr John Johnstone, Millbank, Moffat—A é 
Handbill, framed, issued by the Dumfriesshire Lieutenancy, | 
calling on the different parishes in the County to supply 284 
men by Ballot for the Militia, on 9th December, 1802. The 
exhibitor appended the following note : — ¢ 
’ The Ist Sub-division at Thornhill had to furnish 58 men 
2nd Sub-division at Tinwald .....................00000- 18 men 
3rd Sub-Division at Dumfries ................0scesseees: 58 men 
4th Sub-division at Mouswald ..................eseseeees 8 men 
oth Sub-division at Dalton (......../.......0.....-- 
6th Sub-division at Annan ...........-.ccccesess0-0- 23 men 
‘th Sub-division at Kirkpatrick-Fleming ......... 
8th Sub-division at Langholm .................2...... 28 men 
9th Sub-division at Lockerbie .................000.0000ee 50 men 
I am unable to give the number of men to be furnished by 
the 5th and 7th divisions separately, but combined the number — 
was 41. The ballot in all the divisions was to be held on the 
same day, viz., 9th December, 1802, at 12 o’clock noon. In ( 
connection with the administration of the Ballot Act, the per- 
son drawn did not require to personally serve, but if he did 
not do so had to provide a suitable substitute, and for this 
purpose associations were formed over the whole country to 
pay the bounty required and demanded by the substitute for 
supplying the balloted man’s place. Such an association was 
in existence at Moffat and Upper Annandale, and was largely 
supported by the inhabitants who came under the scope of the 
Act. Not much information can be gathered about this Moffat 
Society, but from two of its scroll minutes in my possession it 
seems to have been in a flourishing state. In the year 1803 
John Halliday was president, Samuel M‘Millan treasurer, and 
the secretary was Samuel Brown, a lawyer practising in the 
town. The membership subscription was one guinea, and the 
bounty offered to substitutes was twenty guineas, but this was 
not sufficient for the purpose, and the minute of 29th July, 
1803, states: —‘‘Samuel Brown further represented that he 
caused advertisements to be put upon the most public places 
offering a bounty of 20 guineas to substitutes, but that none 
had appeared to offer themselves, the meeting authorise him 
to enlist substitutes on such condition as shall appear to him 
reasonable, and even to offer larger bounties than the 20 
guineas.’’ -It is interesting to note the extent to which sub- 
stitutes supplied the places of the men actually drawn in the 
ballot. Im the year 1803, 43,492 were raised by the ballot in 
England, and of these 2554 actually served, the balance, 40,938, 
were substitutes, 
