FERMEV EY DELEON |G ET's, ec: 
of the militia, with this remark, that the overplus of the penalty 
of ten pounds, if any remains, is to be paid by the deputy lieu- 
tenants and juftices to the clerk of the regiment or battalion *, 
who is to account for it to the colonel or commanding officer ; 
a direG@tion which fufficiently points out the difference of cha- 
racter and diftinétion of the department. 
Many of you, in order to eafe yourfelves of expence, have 
formed clubs, in which every perfon liable to be ballotted fub- 
f{cribed a fmall fum, and raifed fufficient to find a fubftitute, in 
cafe the lot fell on any one of the members. By this means 
you prevented a heavy load from falling on all fuch, who by 
reafon of ficknefs, or any other infirmity, were excepted from 
ferving; but not from the taxes attendant on the militia. This 
you did freely : and in cafe the lot fell upon any one of you 
who chofe to ferve, you made ufe of the club-money, and 
fcorned to put your poor neighbors’ (for whom you were 
going to fight) to any more expence than the fupport of your 
families. 
Tue law, by a very particular claufe, encourages the ufe of 2G. Iil.c,20.f53. 
thefe clubs, and as it were, renders optional the ufe of a fore- 
going claufe ; and prevents it from being made burdenfome to 
any parifhes, except thofe which have been imprudent enough 
not to form thefe clubs, in eafe to themfelves. But to levy the 
tax of half the price of a volunteer, as that claufe direéts, is a 
mere wanton exertion of power, in all places where clubs have 
been eftablithed, 
* By the by, an omiflion in the Digeft, ; 
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Stat. L. viii. 624. 
Diget 58. 
2G. IIT. c. 20. £47. 
19 G. hil. c. 72. 
Digeft rer. 
Stat. L. viii. 623. 
xii, 483, 
