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eee 8h) IN) AIO Shy 2G N° 2. 
Iw a few words; it does not appear that the commanding 
_ efficer has fearcely any part to perform till he takes the field: 
z.G.1IT.c ze. 48. 
Stat. L. vili. 623. 
Digeft 102. 
2G. Til-'es.128: 
Stat. L. viii. 637. 
Digeft 61. 
the ballotting, the approving, and the rejecting of volunteers or 
fubftitutes, refting entirely in the civil magiftrates. The power 
of the commandant does not commence till, at fooneft, the 
time of enrolling; for within a month after that, he is at liberty 
to correct the choice of the deputy lieutenants, and to difcharge 
any man whom they have fuffered to pafs mufter, and who is 
really unfit for fervice. 
Goop manners, and even prudence, fhould induce the magi-+ 
ftrates to invite any difcreet officer of the corps to attend the 
mecting for accepting of fubftitutes: or, if the corps is too re- 
mote, prudence fhould urge them to do the fame to any fit offs . 
eer of a neighboring corps, be it recular or militia. They 
ought not; they cannot be partakers of the power entrufted to 
the civil magiftrates: but they may be ufefully confulted on 
any cafes of acceptance, in which the magiftrates may have doubts. 
Every officer is equally a citizen of Great Britain; and I dare 
to fay, on this occafion would, in his advice, not forget that moft 
important character. 
THEApower given to the commandant, of difcharging any 
man he diflikes in one month after enrolling, thews, that it is 
not fuppofed he could be prefent at the ballot, or could have 
any concern in approving of the fubftitutes ; otherwife, he could 
not poffibly receive improper men one week, in order to dif- 
charge them the next. 
I sHatt clofe this fufpicion of the probability of the com- 
manding officer’s being excluded from all concern in the raifing 
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