490 
sions, paid by the Receiver-general of 
the Land fax, Collector of the Customs, 
Collector. of Excise, or Clerk ‘of the 
Cheque of the District; and the Court of 
Assistants may order and direct the 
Pay-master to make out two admittance 
bills payable by them to such widows, 
one of which shall be sent to the widow, 
and the other to the Receiver-general, 
Collector, or Clerk of the Cheque, who 
shall, on the widow’s producing the dupli- 
cate, pay her the sum contained therein, 
The penalty on such persons delaying 
payment, or taking any fees or discount, 
is 501. to be received as penalties under 
the excise laws. > 
On certificate of infirmity being pro- 
duced, the Receiver-general; Collector, 
and Clerk of the Cheque, are auithoniaed 
to pay the contents of the bill to the 
order of the widow. 
But all assignments, bargains, sales, 
orders, contracis, agreements, or securities 
whatsoever, which shall be given or made 
by any widow entitled to receive pension, 
shall be absolutely null and void. 
Letters and packets are to be sent free 
of postage. Persons personating widows 
in order to receive pensions, or forging 
bills or certificates, are guilty of felony, 
and may be transported for not exceed- 
ing fourteen years. 
Bills and certificates are exempted from 
the stamp duties. 
By 49th Geo. III. ¢. 38, non-com- 
missioned officers and soldiers are to be 
allowed is. 4d. per day, for diet and sinall 
beer, in quarters in England; 
articles which have hitherto been fur- 
nished gratis one halfpenny per day. shall 
be allowed, and for horses quartered, 
ds. 2d. per nia shall be paid for hay and 
straw. 
[Passed 28th April. | 
By 49th Geo. III. c. 40, deficiencies 
and vacancies in the Lecat Mrbirra, 
may be directed to be supplied by order 
of the Secretary of State without his 
Majesty’s warrant, but volunteers are 
allowed to enter whether any order be 
given for-supplying deficiencies pr not, 
until the local mihtia he completed. 
Vacancies are to be filled up, not- 
withstanding the number of local militia 
and volunteers exceed six times.the quota 
of the regular militia. 
Where the local militia shall exceed 
such quota, no’ deficiencies shail be 
supplied until the nuinber be reduced 
below the proportion of the county, 
Local militia-men may enlist into the 
reguiar militia, except during the period 
and for. 
_ volunteers, are 
few Acts of the Hreiish Legisluture.. [June.1,- 
of annual training ; and no. officer, or 
other person, shall enlist a local militia- 
man during the period of such training, 
on penalty of 201. 
Vacancies by men being made cor= 
porals and serjeants, and enliszi ing in the 
regular militia, are to be filled up. De- 
puty lieutenants may make new appoint- 
ments in case, from the returns made, 
it be found the quotas are not in propor- 
tion to the rotation numbers labie to 
serve. 
General meetings of heutenancy are to 
fix, by ballot, the order in which subdivie 
sions shall stand as to the supplying de- 
ficiencies on account of the appointment 
of persons to be serjeants or corporais, 
and deputy lieutenants are to regulate 
any inequalities of numbers that. may 
arise in divisions, 
So much of the former act 48th 
Geo. III. c. 111, as relates to boun- 
ties to persons voluntarily enrolling them- 
selves (except members of volunteer 
corps) is repealed, and parties may agree 
to give two guineas bounty. 
The whole of the bounty paid to per- 
sons enrolling in the local milifia shall 
be deducted and repaid out of the bounty 
which they may receive, if within one 
year they enlist into the army, navy, or 
marines, and half if they so enlist, after 
one year and betore the end of two 
years, 
The said former act, as to the advance | 
of bounties to persons from volunteer 
corps being repaid, is repealed. 
Members of volunteer corps trans= 
fering themselves shall not be entitled to 
bounty unless serving before the 12th of 
May, 1809. 
Volunteers transferring themselves in- 
to the Jocal militia are not hable to serve 
in the regular militia, in consequence of 
any former ballot. 
Officers commanding volunteers trans- 
ferring themselves, with thew men, into 
the local militia are to return their com= 
mand, 
Lieutenant-colonels ‘conmabihilin are 
to command lieutenant-colonels. 
Oificers of yeomanry corps and officers 
of local militia, who had commissions in 
to rank according ® the 
date of their commissions. 
Vice-lieutenant, if authorized by tile 
Lord-leutenant, may grant commissions. 
No stamp duty is payable on, commis, 
sions in the local militias and bills tor 
pay and allowance to, and for remitting 
hea on account of the local militia 
lay be drawn on asec paper... 
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