Militia Act 1786

II Three Deputy Lieutanants may act, when the Lieutenant is out of the Kingdom.

II. And be it further enacted, That when the Lieutenant of any County, Riding, or Place, shall be out of the Kingdom ofGreat Britain , or when there shall be no Lieutenant, it shall be lawful for his Majesty to authorise any three Deputy Lieutenants of such County, Riding, or Place, to grant Commissions to Officers to serve in the Militia for such County, Riding, or Place, upon any Vacancy that shall then happen, in such Manner as such Lieutenant could do, and to do all other Acts, Matters, and Things, which might lawfully have been done by the said Lieutenant, and the same shall be good and valid in the Law as if done by the said Lieutenant himself.

III Commissions not to be revoked by the Death of the Grantor.

III. And be it further enacted, That no Commission of any Deputy Lieutenant, nor any Commission of any Officer in the Militia, already granted, or to be granted by any Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenants, shall be vacated by reason of the Revocation, Expiration, or Discontinuance of the Commission by which any such Lieutenant or Deputy Lieutenants as aforesaid was or were pointed.

IV County Lieutenant to have the Chief Command of the Militia of his County, and to appoint 20 Deputies.

IV. And be it further enacted, That the Lieutenant of every County, Riding, or Place, shall have the Chief Command of the Militia within the County, Riding, or Place to which he is appointed, and that twenty Deputy Lieutenants at the least shall be appointed within every County, Riding, and Place, if so many can be found qualified as herein after directed; but if such Number of Persons, so qualified, cannot be found within any such County, Riding, or Place, then as many Persons, so qualified, as can be found within such County, Riding, or Place, shall be appointed to be Deputy Lieutenants for the Purposes of this Act.

V Qualification of Deputy Lieutenants and Officers in England in general.

V. And be it further enacted, That all Persons to be appointed Deputy Lieutenants, or Officers of the Militia, in pursuance of this Act (except within the Counties ofCumberland, Huntingdon, Monmouth, and Westmorland , the Isle of Ely in the County of Cambridge , the several Counties and Places within the Dominion of Wales , and such Cities and Towns as are Counties within themselves), shall be qualified as follows; (that is to say), Every Person so to be appointed a Deputy Lieutenant shall be seised or possessed, either in Law or Equity, for his own Use and Benefit, in Possession, of a Freehold, Copyhold, or Customary Estate for Life, or for the Life of his Wife, she having a Freehold, Copyhold, or Customary Estate for her Life, or for some greater Estate, or of an Estate for some long Term of Years, determinable on one or more Life or Lives, in Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, in England, Wales , or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed , of the yearly Value of two hundred Pounds, or shall be Heir-apparent of some Person who shall in like Manner be seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid of the yearly Value of four hundred Pounds: And every Person so to be appointed a Colonel shall in like Manner be seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the yearly Value of one thousand Pounds, or shall be Heir-apparent of some Person who shall in like Manner be seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the yearly Value of two thousand Pounds: And every Person so to be appointed a Lieutenant Colonel shall in like Manner be seised of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the yearly Value of six hundred Pounds, or shall be Heir-apparent of some Person who shall in like Manner be seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the yearly Value of one thousand two hundred Pounds: And every Person so to be appointed a Major, or a Captain, shall in like Manner be seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the yearly Value of two hundred Pounds, or shall be Heir-apparent of some Person who shall in like Manner be seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the yearly Value of four hundred Pounds, or shall be a younger Son of some Person who shall be, or at the Time of his Death was, in like Manner seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the yearly Value of six hundred Pounds: And every Person so to be appointed Lieutenant shall in like Manner be seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the yearly Value of fifty Pounds, or shall be possessed of a Personal Estate alone, to the Amount of one thousand Pounds, or seised or possessed of Real and Personal Estate together, to the Amount or Value of two thousand Pounds, or shall be Son of some Person who shall be, or at the Time of his Death was, in like Manner seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the yearly Value of one hundred Pounds, or who shall be, or who at the Time of his Death was, possessed of a Personal Estate alone, to the Amount of two thousand Pounds, or seised or possessed of Real and Personal Estate together, to the Amount or Value of three thousand Pounds: And that every Person so to be appointed an Ensign shall in like Manner be seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the yearly Value of twenty Pounds, or shall be possessed of a Personal Estate alone, to the Amount of five hundred Pounds, or seised or possessed of Real and Personal Estate together, to the Amount or Value of one thousand Pounds, or shall be Son of some Person who shall be, or at the Time of his Death was, in like Manner seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the yearly Value of fifty Pounds, or who shall be, or who at the Time of his Death was, possessed of a Personal Estate alone, to the Amount of one thousand Pounds, or seised or possessed of Real and Personal Estate together, to the Amount or Value of one thousand five hundred Pounds, of which said Estates required as Qualifications for Deputy Lieutenants, Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, Majors, and Captains respectively, one Moiety shall be situate or arising within the respective Counties, Ridings, or Divisions in which they shall be appointed to serve.

VI Qualification of Deputy Lieutenants and Officers in Cumberland, &c.

VI. And be it further enacted, That the Estates requisite for the Qualification of the Deputy Lieutenants and Officers of the Militia within the Counties ofCumberland, Huntingdon, Monmouth, Westmorland , and Rutland , and within every County and Place in the Dominion of Wales , shall be as follows; (that is to say), A Deputy Lieutenant shall in like Manner be seised or possessed of a like Estate as aforesaid, of the...