His Majesty may direct Lieutenants of Counties to take Measures for giving Notice by Constables, and obtaining Returns under 42 G.3. c.90. § 26. present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for His Majesty, at any Time after the passing of this Act, in case it shall appear to Him to be necessary, to direct the Lord Lieutenants of the several Counties, Ridings and Places in England, or in their Absence the Vice Lieutenants, or any Three Deputy Lieutenants authorized to act for any Lord Lieutenant, by Precept under his or their Hand and Seal, to require the High Constable of each Subdivision, Hundred, Rape, Lath and Wapentake within their respective Counties, Ridings and Places, to direct, by Warrant or Order under their Hands, the several Constables, Tythingmen, Headboroughs or other Officers of every Parish, Tything or Place within the respective Hundreds, Rapes, Laths, Wapentakes or other Divisions of their respective Counties, Ridings and Places, to give or leave Notice, within Seven Days after the Receipt of any such Order, to or with all Occupiers of Houses and Apartments within the Limits of their respective Authorities, to make Returns according to the Provision of the said recited Act; and such Constables shall, within Ten make out Lists, Days after the Delivery of such Notices, make out Lists, and give Notice of such Lists in Manner therein directed, by affixing Copies of such Lists in conspicuous Places, according to the Provisions of the said Act, and give Notices as therein directed of the Days, Times and Places for hearing Appeals on such Lists. Constables to &c. Returns to specify Ages of Persons, who shall be classed according to Schedules annexed. His Majesty may order other Classes to be returned, and in other Forms. Parochial Officers to assist Constables in making out Lists. II. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That every such Return to such Notices, delivered to the Constables or other Officers aforesaid, and every Return hereafter to be made under the said recited Act, or any other Act relating to the Militia, shall specify the Ages of and other Particulars relating to the Persons returned therein, according to the Form in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (A.); and when such Return shall not have been made, such Ages and other Particulars shall be specified by the Constables in their Returns, according to the best of their Belief; and the Persons so returned shall be classed by the Clerks of Subdivision Meetings, according to their several Ages, and other Circumstances, in the Form and in the Classes in the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (B.), and shall in like Manner be classed according to the Form in the Schedule to this Act annexed marked (C.), in the Returns to be made by the Clerks of General Meetings to the Privy Council. III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by any Order given by One of His Principal Secretaries of State, to direct that the Persons to be returned under this Act, or any Act relating to the Militia, shall be arranged in any other Classes as to Age, Marriage, Children or other Circumstances, and to require Returns to be made to the Constables, and by Clerks of General and Subdivision Meetings respectively, according to any such Classes, and in such other Forms as His Majesty shall by any such Order please to direct. IV. And be it further enacted, That the respective Ministers and Churchwardens, and Overseers of the Poor, and other Parochial Officers in every Parish, Tything or Place, shall, and they are hereby required, to aid and assist by every lawful Means in their Power, the Constables, Tythingmen, Headboroughs and other Officers, in making out the Lists required to be returned by them them under this Act, or any Act relating to the Militia, in their respective Parishes, Tythings and Places. Lists. V. And be it further enacted, That if any such Lists shall be Meetings to be required under this Act, the Lord Lieutenants, Vice or Deputy held for hearing Lieutenants as aforesaid, shall order and direct that Subdivision Appeals and Meetings shall be appointed to be held at such Times and Places correcting as they shall direct, not exceeding One Month after the Precepts to the High Constables shall have been so issued as aforesaid, for the Purpose of hearing Appeals thereon, and for correcting such Lists and such Subdivision Meetings shall thereupon assemble, and hear such Appeals and correct such Lists; and the Clerks of such Clerks to make Subdivision Meetings shall, within Seven Days after such Meeting, out Lists, &c. make out correct Abstracts of such Lists, and transmit the same to the Clerks of General Meetings, on pain of forfeiting for any Penalty 1001. Neglect therein the Sum of One hundred Pounds; and every Clerks of Clerk of General Meetings shall, upon the Receipt of such Abstracts, within Seven Days, make out correct Abstracts thereof, and return the same to His Majesty's Privy Council, on pain of forfeiting for every Neglect therein the Sum of Two hundred Pounds. 6 . ' General Meetings to return to Privy Council. Penalty 2001. VI. And Whereas an Act was passed in the Forty fourth Year of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for establishing 44 G.3. c.56. and maintaining a permanent additional Force for the Defence of the Realm; and to provide for augmenting His Majesty's Regular Forces, and for the gradual Reduction of the Militia of England, whereby Provision was made for the gradual Reduction of the • Militia raised in the several Counties in England, under an Act passed in the Forty second Year of His present Majesty, to the original Quotas specified as to such Counties in the said last ' mentioned Act (a): And Whereas a certain other Act was passed in the Forty fifth Year of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for allowing a certain Proportion of the Militia in Great Britain, 45 G.3. c.31. voluntarily to inlist into His Majesty's Regular Forces and Royal 'Marines, whereby the Militia in Great Britain was allowed to be 'reduced to the original Quotas so specified as aforesaid, by the voluntary enlisting of Men from the Militia into His Majesty's Regular Forces and Royal Marines: And Whereas, notwithstanding the said last recited Acts, the Number of Men serving in the Militia in England still exceeds in the Whole the Number of Militia required to be raised (exclusive of the Supplementary Militia) under the said recited Act of the Forty second Year of His present Majesty: And Whereas it is expedient that the Ballot should be still further suspended;' Be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, no Ballot for the enrolling any Man to serve in the Militia in England, or for the supplying any Vacancy which may arise therein, shall take place until the full End and Term of Two Years after the passing of this Act. (a) [Cap. 51. ante.] ८ Ballot for Two Years. His Majesty may order VII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for His Majesty, at any Time within such Period of Two Years as aforesaid, if He shall think fit to order and direct by any Ballot for supWarrant under His Royal Sign Manual, that such Ballot shall take plying Vacanplace for the Purpose of supplying any Vacancies, or any Propor- Quota, under cies in original tion of any Vacancies which may have arisen in the Militia of any 42 G.3. c.90. County, Riding or Place, after the Militia thereof shall have been § 19.. reduced Powers of 42 G.3. c. 90. or any other Act relating to the Militia extended to Act. Act may be altered, &c. this Session. reduced to the Quota specified in the said recited Act of the Forty second Year aforesaid; any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. VIII. And be it further enacted, That all Powers, Provisions, Rules, Regulations, Penalties, Forfeitures, Clauses, Matters and Things contained in the said Act of the Forty second Year of His Majesty's Reign, or in any other Acts relative to the Militia of England, shall, as far as the same are applicable and can be applied for the Purpose of carrying this Act into Execution, and are not hereby altered, varied or repealed, be applied for the Purposes of this Act, in as full and ample a Manner as if the said Powers, Provisions, Rules, Regulations, Penalties, Forfeitures, Clauses, Matters and Things were again repeated and enacted in this Act. IX. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, varied, or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. SCHEDULES to which this Act refers. SCHEDULE (A.) Take Notice, That you are hereby required, within Two Days from the Date hereof, to prepare and produce a List in Writing, to the best of your Belief, of the Christian Name and Surname of each and every Man resident in your Dwelling House, between the Ages of Eighteen and Forty five, distinguishing in such List the several Particulars mentioned in the Columns thereof; and you are to sign such List with your own Name, and to deliver or cause the same to be delivered to me. Day of A. B. Constable. N. B. If any House is divided into distinct Stories or Apartments occupied distinctly, each distinct Occupier is required to make this Return. Neglect of Compliance with this Notice will subject the Party to a Penalty of Ten Pounds. Take Notice, That the Hour of in the Day of at the noon, is appointed for hearing Appeals within this Subdivision, by Persons claiming to be exempt from serving in the A. B. Constable of |