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at Petit Lac,
at La Fourche,

400 00

$50 00

50 00

100 00

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do 100 00

Do to Jonathan Noble, do
Do to Thomas Evans, do at Assametquagan, do 100 00

Proportion of the expenses of keeping up Light-Houses on
Isles of St. Paul and Scatterie, in the Gulf.

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400 00

2,500 00

167,076 00

68,000 00

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Commissions, Inspections, Advertising and other
Contingent expenses of the Crown Lands,
Woods and Forests and Ordnance Lands..83,000 00

To make good the expenditure incurred during the year-
1862, as detailed in Statement No. 61, part II of the
Public Accounts laid before the Legislature

Education.

160,000 00

1,161,200 00

189,606 27

Additional to Common Schools, Upper and Lower Canada, (the proportion for Upper Canada to be applicable for Grammar Schools)....

Miscellaneous.

Gratuity to Widow McNab, whose only son. Francis McNab, lost his life in a snow storm 7th February, 1861, in the effort to convey the Mails from Kincardine to Goderich...

32,000 00

Total out of Consolidated Revenue Fund...

400 00

3,909,454 27

Out of Special Funds.

Toronto Gaol, (out of Upper Canada Building Fund)...

18,000 00

Completion of Quebec Gaol, (out of Building and Jury Fund for the District

of Quebec).

15,500 00

Repairing Kamouraska Gaol and Court House, (out of Building and Jury
Fand for the District of Kamouraska)

4,000 00

CAP.

Preamble.

Governor to be
Commander in

Chief.

Of whom the Militia shall consist.

Militia divided into three classes.

First.

Second.

Reserve.

Certain functionaries &c., to be wholly exempt.

Exemptions except in case of war, &c.

CAP. II.

An Act respecting the Militia.

[Assented to 15th October, 186.]

ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the

follows:

Assembly of Canada, enacts

1. The Governor shall, by virtue of his Office, be Commander in Chief of the Militia.

2. The Militia shall consist of all the male inhabitants of the Province of the age of eighteen years or upwards and under sixty, not exempted or disqualified by law.

3. The Militia shall be divided into three classes, to be called respectively first class Service Men, second class Service Men and Reserve Men: the first class Service Men shall be those of eighteen years of age and upwards, but under fortyfive years, who are unmarried Men or widowers without children, and the second class Service Men shall be those between the ages last aforesaid who are married Men or widowers with children,--and the Reserve Men shall be those of forty-five years of age and upwards, but under sixty years.

EXEMPTIONS.

4. The following persons only, between the ages of eighteen and sixty years, shall be exempt from enrolment as hereinafter mentioned, and from actual service at any time:

The Judges of the Superior Courts of Law or Equity in
Upper and Lower Canada;

The Judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty;

The Judges of the County Courts ;

The Clergy and Ministers of all Religious denominations;

The Professors in any College or University and all teachers in religious orders;

The Warden, Keepers and Guards of the Provincial Penitentiary;

2. And the following, though enrolled, shall be exempt from attending muster and from actual service at any time except in case of war, invasion or insurrection

The Reserve Men;

The Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils;

The

The Members of the Legislative Assembly;

The Officers of the said Councils and Assembly respectively;

The Attorneys and Solicitors General;

The Provincial Secretary and Assistant Secretaries;

All Civil Officers appointed to any Civil Office in this province under the Great Seal;

All persons lawfully authorized to practise Physic or Surgery; Half-pay and Retired Officers of Her Majesty's Army or Navy; Postmasters and Mail Carriers ;

Seafaring Men actually employed in their calling;

Pilots and Apprentice Pilots during the Season of Navigation; Masters of Public and Common Schools actually engaged in teaching;

Ferrymen;

One Miller for each run of stones in every Grist Mill;
Keepers of public Toll-Gates;

Lock Masters and Labourers employed in attending to Locks and Bridges on Public Canals;

The Engine Drivers, Conductors and Switchmen connected with the several Railways actually in use in this Province;

Members of Fire Companies and of Hook and Ladder Companies or persons having served as such regularly during seven consecutive years, and having a certificate thereof from the proper Officer under the Act to exempt Firemen from certain local duties and services;

Officers, non-commissioned officers and men of the Volunteer Force whilst on the Roll of any Corps or Battalion and serving therein;

Jailors, Constables and Officers of Courts of Justice, not being such solely by virtue of their being non-commissioned Officers of Militia;

Students attending Seminaries, Colleges, Schools and Academies, who have been attending such at least six months previous to the time at which they claim such exemption;

All

Persons having religious scruples.

Exemption

must be claimed.

Burden of

proof.

Present divi

Each County to be a Regimental divi

sion.

All persons disabled by bodily infirmity;

All persons bearing Certificates from the Society of Quakers, Menonists and Tunkers, or any inhabitant of this Province, of any Religious denomination, otherwise subject to Military duty in time of Peace, but who, from the doctrines of his Religion, is averse to bearing arms and refuses personal Military Service, shall be exempt therefrom; but exemptions under this clause shall not prevent any person from serving, or, if an Officer holding a Commission in the Militia, if he desires it and is not disabled by bodily infirmity ;-And no person shall have the benefit of such exemption, unless he has, at least one month before he claims such benefit, filed his claim thereto with his affidavit made before some Magistrate (or affirmation in cases where persons are allowed to affirm) of the facts on which he rests his claim, with the Clerk of the Municipality within the limits whereof he resides ;-And whenever exemption is claimed, whether on the ground of age or otherwise, the burden of proof shall always be upon the claimant.

REGIMENTAL DIVISIONS.

5. All Military Districts heretofore and now existing, and sions abolished. all divisions thereof respectively, are hereby annulled and abolished;-And each County in this Province shall constitute a Regimental Division; and the Commander in Chief, by any General Order, may designate the Regiment in each of such divisions by such name or number or both as he sees fit, (e. g. The first or [name of County] Regiment of Militia) and may, from time to time, connect one or more Counties as a RegiAs to Quebec, mental Division, and vary or alter the same; but for the purposes of this Act the City of Quebec shall be held to be in the County of Quebec, and the City of Montreal to be in the County of Hochelaga, and the City of Toronto to be in the County of York.

Montreal and
Toronto.

SERVICE MILITIA.

Mode of enrol

ment in U. C.

Rolls to be

made by asses

sors yearly.

Columns

for different Classes.

SERVICE ENROLMENT IN UPPER CANADA.

6. The mode of enrolment of the Militia shall, in Upper Canada, be as follows, that is to say-the Assessor or Assessors for each Municipality in Upper Canada shall, annually, commencing with the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and at the same time when they are engaged in taking the Assessment of real and personal property in their respective Municipalities, include in their Assessment Roll, the names and residences of all male persons in their respective Municipalities, between the ages of eighteen and sixty years; and they shall prepare three additional columns in such Assessment Roll, which shall be headed respectively "First Class Service Militia Roll," "Second Class

Service

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