Local Militia (Ireland) Act 1813
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(53 Geo. 3) C A P. XLVIII.
[21st May 1813]
'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty ninth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituledAn Act for amending and reducing into One Act of Parliament, the Laws for raising and training the Militia of Ireland; it was, amongst other things, enacted, that no Person who after the Commencementof the said Act should be appointed Paymaster in the said Militia, should be capable of holding any Commission in the said Militia, save the Commission of Paymaster; and that no Officer holding any Commission in the said Militia should be capable of being appointed Paymaster: And whereas the said Provisions have been found inconvenient;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authorityof the same, That, after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for any Paymaster in the said Militia to hold the Commission of a Subaltern Officer in the said Militia together with the Commission of Paymaster, and that any Officer holding the Commission of a Subaltern Officer in the said Militia shall be capable of being appointed Paymaster therein; any thing in the said recited Act or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
II G 3. c. 120. ∥ 141.
'II. And whereas by the said recited Act it is also, amongst other things, provided, that if it shall happen in any case that the Number of Militia Men duly appointed, or to be appointed to be raised for any Regiment or Battalion of the Militia ofIreland , shall not be raised within Three Calendar Months from and after the time when the same ought to be raised by Ballot, or within Four Months from the Date of the Order for raising the same by enrolling Volunteers, then and in every such case the County or County of a City or Town, in which such Number of Militia Men ought to be raised, shall be charged with the Payment of the yearly Sum of Ten Pounds, for and in lieu of every Private Militia Man so deficient; and upon Proof on Oath first laid by any Governor or Deputy Governor of such Deficiency before the Judge of Assize, or in the County or City of Dublin , before the Court of King's Bench, it shall be lawful for such Judge of Assize and such Court, and they are thereby respectively required, to fine the County or County of...
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