164 
€6 An A& toelter and amend fo much cf an 
A paffed incthe 34th Year of his prefent | 
Majefty, as relates to the Amount of the 
Sums'io be paid by Perfons compounding 
for the Performance of Statute Duty, qa. 
Geo. 3, cap. 52.” (Pafled May 16, 1304.) 
Ferfons compounding with the furveyor 
fer flatute duty, on the highways, are, 
under this adi, to pay not.exceeding 12:8, 
mor lefs than 4s. :for {uch team, draught; 
or plough, for each day, if adjudged of 
the Juftices at -the Michaelmas fefficns ; 
and in default of their adjudome the fame, 
the fum of 6s. im lieu of every day’s duty 
fcr each team, draught, or plough; and 
fcr each cart with two horfes, or beaits. of 
draught, net exceeding 8s. nor leis than 
gs. and in defanlt of acjudging the fame 
as. and for.each cart with, one horfe,. cr 
beaft of draught, not exceeding 6s. nor 
le(s than 2s. and in defaulr of adjudging 
the fame, 35. | 
ec An A& for granting tohis Majefty, during 
the prefent War, and for Six Months.after 
the Expiration thereof, by the Ratification 
ef a definitive Treaty of Peace, additional 
Duties of Cuftoms, 44 Geo. 3, cap. 53.” 
fPafled May 18, 1804.) 
The fchedule of the duties impofed by 
this a& being of confiderable length, and 
enly interefting to perfons direétly con- 
cerned in the imperting and exporting of 
goods, or bringing them coaftways. _ 
“¢ An A& toconfolidate and amend the Pro- 
vigions of feveral A@ts relating to 
Corps of Yeomanry and Volunteers in 
Great Britain ; and to make further regu- 
Jations relating thereto, 44 Geo. 3, cap. 
54 
The regulations contained in this act 
are various, but not .of fufficient general 
importance to be noticed in this Journal, 
except only fo far as they relate to the pri- 
wileges granted to the effective members 
of yecmanry or volunteer corps: the 
claufesin this refpeét are as follows: 
Every effective member of -yeomanry or 
volunteer corps fhall. be exempt from fer- 
vice in the militia or other additional 
force; but this is not to exiend to corps 
whofe offers fpecified that fuch exemption 
would not be claimed; or entitle any 
greater number of perfons in -any corps 
than is or fhall be allowed as the eftablith- 
ed number of the ccrps. 
No perfon fall be deemed an effeftive 
meiaber, or enritied ‘to exemption. who 
fhall not have attended, if inthe cavalry, 
four.days, and in thé infantry eight days, 
atthe leaft, in the four:months preceding 
each return; unicfs abfent with deave, or 
the 
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fick; nor unlefs returned by the com- 
manding officer as an eficctive member, 
and as having taken the oath of allegiance, *' 
Where arms or accoutrenients, which 
were to be fupplied by Government, have 
not been fupplied to the corps, the meme: 
bers who have attended mutter and. ex: 
ercife may ibe returned as effeétive, al- 
though they have attended without arms 
or accoutrements, 
Commanding officers may grant leave 
of abfence, and fuch perfons completing 
their full number cf days of attendance 
fhall be entitled to exemption as effective. 
And members attending the full num- 
ber of days, yearly, though not in equal 
proportionsio each period of four months, 
are entiiled to exemption. 
The commanding officers are to give 
certificates to effetive men refiding in 
other places, which will entitle them to 
exemption. 
Field Officers and Adjutants of volun. 
teer corps, and perfons ferving in yeo- 
manry or vclunteer cavalry, are exempted 
from duty on horfes ufed at mufter and ex- 
ercife; and alfo perfons providing them. 
fsod all effective members of yeomanry 
and volunteer corps from the hair- powder 
duty; and the commanding officers aré to 
deliver annual certificates, for the above 
purpofes, to the furveyor of the aflefied 
taxes for the difritt. 
No corps is, however, to be entitled to 
any exemptions, unlefs the commanding 
officer certifies in the mufter-rolls that it .+ 
has been, or has been ready to be, in- 
{pected. selec 
No toll is to be demanded for any horfe » 
rode by any perfon in any corps of yeo- 
manry, or by any field or ftaff-officer of 
volunteers, going to or returning from ex- 
ercife, if drefled in the uniform of the 
corps. | 
Perfons enrolled in the yeomanry or vo- 
lunteers are not to be exempt from the 
militia ballot, and notice is to be given to 
fuch as are chofen, who fhall be immedi- 
ately liable to ferve on quitting the corps, 
or being difcharged for mifcondu@: but 
this is not to deprive them of any other 
privilege to which they may be entitled ; 
and if they continue to ferve as volunteers 
curing the war, and until fix months after 
the exchange of the ratifications of a defi- 
nitive treaty of peace, fhall not be liable 
to ferve afterwards by reafon of fuch bal- 
lor. / 
Adjutants, Serjeant-Majors, and others, 
who receive conftant pay, fhallibe fubje& to 
the Mutiny Act.and Articles of War: but 
,  courtss 
