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No perron having ferved in the regular militia or fueh 
additional force, ot provided any fubllitute, or paid any 
fine for not ferving or finding any fubftitute, in the regu¬ 
lar militia or fuch additional force as aforel'aid, fhall be 
entitled to exemption from being ballotted under this 
adt, for any longer period than four years after the expi¬ 
ration of his period of fervice, if he fhall have ferved in 
perfon, or fix years from the period of any fuch fubllitute 
being enrolled, or four years after having paid any fuch 
fine. And no articled clerk or apprentice, nor any poor 
man who has lefs than three children born in wedlock, nor' 
any perfon under the height of five feet four inches, who 
fhall be of the height of five feet two inches, or upwards, 
fhall,by reafon thereof,refpeftively be exempt under this aft, 
notwithftanding they may, by reafon thereof, refpeftively 
be exempt from the militia. Provided that nothing in 
this aft contained fhall extend to authorife any apprentice 
ballotted under this aft, to enlift in the army, navy, ma¬ 
rines, or regular militia, or to enter as a volunteer in the 
local militia, without the content of his mailer; provided 
alfo, that no ballot, enrolment, and fervice, under this 
aft,, fhall make void or in any manner affieft any inden¬ 
ture of apprenticefliip or contraft of fervice between any 
mailer or fervant, notwithllanding any covenant or agree¬ 
ment in any fuch indenture or contraft; and no fervice un¬ 
der this aft of any apprentice or fervant fhall be deemed to 
be an abl'ence from fervice, or a breach of any covenant 
or agreement as to any fervice or abfence from fervice in 
any indenture of apprenticefliip or contraft of fervice. 
And every perfon claiming to be exempted from fervice 
under this aft, upon payment of the fine of twenty pounds, 
or ten pounds, inltead of thirty pounds, fhall fign a de¬ 
claration that the amount of his income does not exceed 
two hundred or one hundred pounds as aforefaid, as the 
cafe may be, and fhall deliver the lame to the deputy- 
lieutenants before whom he fhall appear to claim fuch ex¬ 
emption, or produce a certificate to the like effeft, allowed 
by any commiffioners under any aft relating to the rates 
and duties arifing on property. See. or to any allowances 
made on any fuch rates and duties, within twelve months 
previous to the produftion of l'uch certificate. Quakers, 
or United Brethren, on produftion of certain certificates, 
■fhall not be enrolled, but may be adjudged to pay a pro¬ 
portion of the fines on perfons ballotted, and not appear¬ 
ing. Perfons ferving in the local militia are entitled to 
the fame exemptions as volunteers; and, having ferved 
four years, are not liable to be ballotted for the regular 
militia for two years. Local-militia officers lhall not be 
exempt from ferving the office of fheriff. 
His majefly may order the local militia to be called out 
yearly to be trained; but they are not to be trained for 
more than twenty-eight days in a year, nor to be ordered 
to march for that purpol'e further than fome adjoining 
county. In cafe of invafion, or appearance of an enemy 
in force upon the coafl of any part of the united king¬ 
dom, his majefly may order the local militia to be embo¬ 
died and marched to any part of Great Britain, and con¬ 
tinue there, lb embodied, for any period not exceeding 
fix weeks after the enemy fhall have been prevented or 
repelled, or driven from the coafl, or after any rebellion 
or infurreftion fhall have been fupprefTed. Lord-lieute¬ 
nants, &c. may call out the local militia for the fuppref- 
fion of riots ; and thole who do not appear are fubjeft to 
certain penalties : but, when l'o called out, they are not 
to be kept alfembled for more than fourteen days in one 
year. Local militia alfembled in time of war are lubjefted 
to the mutiny-aft. Every perfon enrolled to lerve in the 
local militia fhall, upon being affembled for training and 
cxercife, be entitled to receive one guinea for the firlt year 
of his fervice, and 10s. 6d. for each l’ucceeding year; and 
a further hum of one guinea in cafe fuch perfon lhall be 
embodied under any order of council or proclamation. 
The local militia, when not drawn out and embodied, 
fhall be entitled to the lame pay, clothing, and allowances, 
as the regular militia are when not embodied ; and, when 
drawn out and embodied, fhall be entitled to.the fame 
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pay, clothing, and allowances, for themfelves and families, 
as his majefly’s other militia-forces when drawn out and 
embodied. Local-militia-men may enlift in the army, 
navy, or marines, or the regular militia of the fame coun¬ 
ty ; and their vacancies lhall be fupplied as other vacan¬ 
cies. No perfon fhall enlift a local-militia-man during 
the period of training, on penalty of 20I. Every county, 
hundred, or parifh, is fubjeft to a fine of 15I. for each 
man deficient at a certain period; but it fhall be entitled 
to a return of part, for every man enrolled within a cer¬ 
tain time. 
The “Militia-Inliftment-bill,”in 1 Bog, might be faid to 
deface the beauty of the militia-fyllem entirely. The lo¬ 
cal militia was from the firll confidered as a fource whence 
the regular army might be fupplied with men of a de- 
feription fomewhat better than raw recruits. But now 
the regular militia were to be enticed by a bounty to enter 
into the line, and for unlimited fervice ; and the defi¬ 
ciencies thus made were to be fupplied by a new ballot. 
Thus, while Mr. Windham’s excellent plan would have 
made all the foldiers, with refpeft to time of fervice, mi¬ 
litia-men and citizens, this meafure went to feduce them 
to forego thofe benefits, and to convert all our militia¬ 
men and citizens into common barrack-foldiers, and for 
life. See the article London, vol.xiii. p. 209. 
The lall aft that we have to notice under this head is 
that of 1811, the objeft of which is to enable his majefly 
to order an interchange between the regiments of Eng- 
lifli and Irifli militia. This was a meafure of policy, and 
we think it has produced the good effefts which were in 
contemplation. 
MIL'ITSCH, a town of Silefia, and chief place of a 
lordfhip, furrounded by the principality of Oels, to which 
it once belonged. It is eighteen miles north of Oels, and 
twenty-feven north-north-eaft of Brellau. Lat. 51. 33. N. 
Ion. 17. 10. E. 
MIL'IUM, /. [from mille, Lat. a thoufand; becaufe of 
the multitude of its grains.] Millet-grass ; in botany, 
a genus of the clafs triandria, order digynia, natural or¬ 
der of gramina, or grades. Generic charafters—Calyx : 
glume one-fiowered, two-valved; valves ovate, acumi¬ 
nate, almoft equal. Corolla: two-valved, lefs than the 
calyx; valves ovate, one lefs ; neftary two-leaved ; leaf¬ 
lets ovate, obtule, gibbous at the bafe. Stamina : fila¬ 
ments three, capillary, very ffiort; antherae oblong. Pif- 
tillum: germ roundifh; ftyles two, capillary; ftigmas 
pencil-form. Pericarpium : none. Seed : fingle, covered, 
roundifh.— Effential Char (idler. Calyx two-valved, one- 
flowered ; valves almoft equal; corolla very fhort; ftig¬ 
mas pencil-form. There are leventeen lpecies. 
1. Milium Capenfe, or Cape millet-grafs: panicle ca¬ 
pillary; calyxes acuminate; awn of the corolla termi¬ 
nating, curved. Culms a palm in height, even, very ten¬ 
der. Leaves narrow, with hairs lcattered over them un¬ 
derneath, and the throat bearded. Panicle difperled on 
every fide; pedicels as flender as a very fine hair ; caly- 
cine valves ovate, fomewhat ventricofe, acuminate, equal 
in length ; feed the length of the calyx; awn longer than 
the flower. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
2. Milium punftatum, or dotted millet-grafs : branches 
of the panicle quite limple; flow'ers alternate, in pairs, 
direfted one way. Culm from one to two feet in height, 
limple, upright, jointed, lfnooth. Leaves broadifh, en¬ 
tire, ftriated, even. Native of Jamaica, in moift meadows. 
3. Milium lendigerum, or yellow-fpiked millet-grafs : 
panicle lubfpiked ; flowers awned. This .is a very fmall 
annual plant, extremely hard to afeertain, from the diffi¬ 
culty of feeing its charafters. The fpikes are concealed 
by fmall awns, through which very fimall feeds may be 
diftinguifhed, of the fame form and colour with thofe of 
Panicum viride, but only one-fourth or one-fifth of the 
fize. According to Dr. Stokes, in its ftrufture this grafs 
is an Avena. Mr. Hudfon made it an Alopecurus, but 
it cannot properly be confidered as of that genus, be¬ 
caufe the corolla is two-valved. Linmeus and Gouan 
have made it an Agroftis 3 and, according to Withering, 
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