Professional Cavalry Act 1796
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(37 Geo. 3) C A P. XXIII.
[30th December 1796]
WHEREAS it is expedient that an Act, passed in the present Session of Parliament, intituled,An Act for enabling his Majesty to raise a provisional Force of Cavalry, to be embodied, in case of Necessity, for the Defence of these Kingdom , should be explained and amended, in the Particulars herein after mentioned:' May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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 Authority of the same, That no Person shall be exempt from the Service mentioned in the said Act, by reason of his or her having been an articled Clerk or Apprentice, unless the Articles or indentures under which such Person shall be bound shall have been executed on or before the twentieth Day ofOctober one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and unless such Person shall be actually serving under such Articles or Indentures at the Time of his or her claiming such Exemption.
II No licensed Teacher of a separate Congregation liable to Service, who is not charged to the Duties on Horses for more than one.
II. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said Act, passed in the present Session, as exempts any Teacher of a private Congregation from the Service required by the said Act, shall be and is hereby repealed: And that no licensed Teacher to any separate Congregation, shall be liable to the Service required by the said Act, who shall not be charged to the said Duties on Horses for more than one Horse, Mare, or Gelding.
III Persons not charged to the Duties on Horses for more than three, serving in the Cavalry raised under 34 Geo. III. Cap. 31. or who shall be accepted to serve by a limited Time, not to be classed under recited Act for such Houses; but if any such Person charged for more than three Houses, &c. be appointed or chosen by Ballot to serve, he shall provide a Substitute; as also Persons appointed or chosen by Ballot, deemed unfit for Service, or refusing to be sworn.
III. And be it further enacted, That if any Person not charged to any of the Duties on Horses for more than three Horses, Mares, or Geldings, shall have served or been entered in any Volunteer Corps of Cavalry, raised by virtue of an Act, passed in the thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled,An Act for encouraging and disciplining such Corps or Companies of Men as shall voluntarily enrol themselves for the Defence of their Counties, Towns, or Coasts, or for the general Defence of the Kingdom, during the present War , or who shall enter or offer himself, and be accepted before the fifteenth Day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, to serve in any such Corps raised or to be raised by virtue of the said Act, before the fifteenth Day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, or such other Day to which the Ballot, within any Subdivision of a County, Riding, or Division, shall be postponed by his Majesty's Privy Council, in the Manner herein-after directed; and if such Person shall, at his own Expence, furnish a Mare or Gelding for the said Service, in such Corps, then such Person shall not be liable to be classed, or to provide any Man, or furnish any Mare or Gelding, in pursuance of the said Acts of the present Session, in respect of such Horses, Mares, or Geldings, not exceeding three, for which he shall be so charged: Provided always, That if any such Person as aforesaid, being charged for more than three such Horses, shall be appointed or chosen by Ballot to provide for the Service required by the said Act of the present Session of Parliament, such Person shall be obliged to provide a proper Substitute or Substitutes, for the Service thereby required, although by reason of the personal Service of such Person in such Volunteer Corps he cannot be enrolled under the said Acts of the present Session of Parliament; and that any other Person who shall by virtue of the said Act be appointed or chosen by Ballot to provide for the Service thereby required, and who shall be deemed unfit for personal Service therein, for any Cause to be allowed by the Deputy Lieutenants, or one Deputy Lieutenant, and one Justice of the Peace, acting for the Subdivision, or who shall refuse or neglect to take the Oath required to be taken under the said Act, as amended by this Act, shall be obliged to provide a Substitute or Substitutes for the Service thereby required.
IV Inferior Officers of Customs, &c. how far exempted.
IV. And be it further enacted, That no inferior Officer of his Majesty's Duties of Customs, nor any Supervisor, Riding Officer, or other inferior Officer of the Duties on Salt, who shall not be respectively charged to the said Duties on Horses for more than one Horse, Mare, or Gelding, and who shall make it appear to the Deputy Lieutenants, or any two or more of them, or to one Deputy Lieutenant and one Justice of the Peace, at any Subdivision Meeting to be held as aforesaid, that he is obliged by the Regulations or Orders of his superior Officers to keep such Horse, Mare, or Gelding, for the necessary Performance of his Duty, as such Officer, shall be liable to provide any Man, or any Mare, or Gelding, for his Majesty's Service, in pursuance of the said Act of the Session of Parliament.
V No Mare, &c. of 14 Hands or upwards to be rejected on account of its Height. \(See Cap. 6. ∥ 25.)
V. And be it further enacted, That no Mare, or Gelding, provided by any Person by virtue of the said Act, and being of the Height of fourteen Hands or upwards, shall be deemed unfit for Service, or rejected at any Muster held under the said Act of the present Session, by reason that such Mare or Gelding may be under the Height required by the said Act.
VI No Person to be required to swear he is a Protestant, and in administering the Oath, those Words to be omitted.
VI. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said Act of the present Session as requires every Person previously to his being inrolled, or permitted to serve in the Cavalry of any County, Riding, or Place, to swear that he is a Protestant, shall be, and it is hereby repealed; and that it shall be lawful for the Person or Persons authorized to administer the Oath prescribed by the said Act of the present Session of Parliament, and he and they is and are hereby required in every Case in administering the same, to omit the following Words,videlicet : 'And I do swear that I am a Protestant.'
VII Where Deputy Lieutenants, &c. have omitted to meet to execute the recited Act, they may meet for that Purpose, and are required, as soon after passing this Act as convenient, to meet to execute the same.
VII. And be it further enacted, That in all Cases where the said Deputy Lieutenants, or ore Deputy Lieutenant and one Justice of the Peace, have already omitted, or shall at any Time or Times hereafter omit, to meet or execute any of the Powers of the said Act of the present Session of Parliament, at the Time or Times, or according to the Manner prescribed by the said Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Deputy Lieutenants, or any two or more of them, or one Deputy Lieutenant and one Justice of the Peace, acting for any Subdivision of any County, Riding, or Division, to meet and execute the said Powers, or any of them, at any other Time or Times, and from Time to Time as there shall be Occasion; and they are hereby authorized and required, as soon after the passing of this Act as shall be convenient, to meet at such Time or Times as they shall think fit, and execute the same at any Meeting or Meetings, to be held in pursuance of seven Days previous Notice, to be given in the Manner directed by the said Act, or by Adjournment, as the Case may require, so as the said Act may be fully executed; and all Meetings and Acts of the said Deputy Lieutenants, or any two or more of them, or one Deputy Lieutenant and one Justice of the Peace in any such Subdivision, which have been already had pursuant (in all other Respects) to the Directions of the said Act, or which shall hereafter be had under the Authority given by this Acts, shall be deemed and are hereby declared to be good and valid to all Intents and Purposes, notwithstanding such former Omission or Defect.
VIII Mode of appealing.
VIII. And be it further enacted, That if any Person whose Name shall be inserted in any List or Class made out in pursuance of the said Act, shall think himself or herself aggrieved thereby...
To continue reading
Request your trial