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THE ADJUTANCY OF A MILITIA ARTILLERY UNIT. 
The Annual Inspection generally takes place on the Wednesday and 
Thursday of the fourth and last week of the training; the programme 
for it is pretty much as follows :— 
First day—morning.—-Marching order parade, inspection of arms, 
kits and great coats, New Reserve, i.e., men enlisted for the Militia 
Reserve during the current Training, and the camp during the dinner 
hour. In the afternoon, gun drill and Artillery exercises and books. 
Second day—morning.—Drill order parade for infantry drill, and 
practice from 64-prs., which concludes the inspection. 
Militia Reserve. 
One-third the number of the establishment of gunners in the unit 
may be attested for the Militia Reserve, which renders them liable to 
serve abroad, in addition to their ordinary liabilities as militiamen; 
they must be between the ages of 19 and 34 years, have served two 
Trainings, and be of good character; they receive a bounty of £1, 
called a “ Reserve Bounty/' in addition to their £1 bounty as Militia¬ 
men ; the engagement for the Reserve runs concurrently with the 
Militia engagement, but a man cannot be enlisted for the Reserve after 
34 years of age. 
The Unit Fades. 
The inspection concluded, the unit which we have seen bud and 
blossom, now begins to fade; the last process being as rapid as in the 
case of a flower nipped by frost. 
On the Friday the arms are taken in, oiled, and packed in arm chests, 
ready for transmission to Ordnance Store; the clothing and kits of the 
men having been inspected, and any deficiencies or damages noted and 
charged to the individuals concerned, are placed in store ; the tent 
bottoms are scrubbed and cleaned, and placed in wagons on the railway 
line, which in this case is in close proximity to the camping ground; 
the men then sign their accounts; their credits and bounties, and any 
money prizes they may have won at the sports, are placed in envelopes 
and sealed in their presence, but not given to them until they have 
taken their seats in the train on the following day. 
The Bounty Board. 
On this day also assembles the Bounty Board, which has power to 
deduct from a man any portion of his bounty, for misconduct during 
training, or to pay for clothing and necessaries lost or destroyed, or 
for barrack damages, or for repair of arms; sentencing a man to appear 
before a Bounty Board has a most salutary effect, because there is 
nothing a Militiaman hates more than having any portion of his bounty 
stopped from him. 
The Disbandment. 
On the Saturday morning, the last day of the Training, the camp is 
struck and packed in wagons on the railway line, and the men change 
into plain clothes ; all men who belong to the immediate neighbourhood 
are kept in uniform, and not settled up with until all the others have 
gone. The men having got into plain clothes are then marched by 
companies to the railway station, and when entrained, receive the en- 
