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THE ADJUTANCY OP A MILITIA ARTILLERY UNIT. 
they have taken up their residence in the county to which the unit 
belongs. 
Gunnery Instruction. 
On the 17th April, 14 days before the Training, the recruits who 
elected to drill on enlistment, and who have alread}^ done 49 days 
recruits drill, join for instruction in gunnery, under the Instructor-of- 
Gunnery, who also joins for duty at this stage. 
During the period of Preliminary Drill, the recruits have been ac¬ 
commodated in lodgings; their ration of bread and meat has been 
issued to them daily ; vegetables, groceries, tea, &c., being supplied to 
them under arrangements made with the person supplying the lodgings. 
The unit is to assemble on May 1st, and will be encamped; during 
the last week of Preliminary Drill the camp equipment, which has pre¬ 
viously been requisitioned for, arrives; also all arrangements necessary 
for the supply of a large number of men have been completed in every 
detail. 
On the 28th April the camp, as required during the Training, is 
pitched, and beds filled; on the morning of the 29th April, the recruits 
vacate their lodgings and march into camp and occupy it, special 
authority to do so having previously been obtained, because it is not 
yet the 1st of May. 
It is an understood thing that no application from a Militia unit to 
go under canvas before the 1st of May will be entertained. 
The Assembly. 
Early on the 1st of May the equipment and clothing of each company 
are brought from the store and placed in the company lines. Notices 
having been issued a month previously, the men of the unit now come in; 
it may here be mentioned that the fact of a notice having been posted 
to the address left by a militiaman is sufficient evidence to convict him 
in the event of his absence without leave. 
Each man, as he enters the camp, repairs to his company lines and 
reports himself to his Company Sergeant-Major, from whom he receives 
a card with the number of his company, and his own number and name 
on it; he then proceeds to the hospital tent and is medically examined; 
the Medical Officer entering on his card “fit,” “ temporarily unfit,” or 
“permanently unfit,” as the case may be; he then returns to his Com¬ 
pany Sergeant-Major with his card, who, if the man is fit, issues to 
him his valise equipment and clothing; the man then puts on his 
uniform and puts his plain clothes in a plain clothes bag, which he 
leaves in his tent; he then receives from his Company Sergeant-Major, 
if he wishes it, a ticket entitling him to a hot meal, with which he pro¬ 
ceeds to the cook-bank, and on handing his ticket to the master cook, 
receives a hot meal which is debited to his account. 
Men found temporarily or permanently unfit are not clothed, but are 
settled up with and return to their homes. 
As soon as the majority of the men are in, each company parades 
with its plain clothes bags, which are taken and placed in the store; 
the arms, consisting of a Martini-Henry carbine and the sword-bayonet 
with steel scabbard, which used to accompany the Snider carbine, are 
