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Militia (City of London) Act 1820
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Recited Acts repealed ; but the Repeal not to annul the Proceedings of the Commissioners of Lieutenancy.
II.Commissioners to arm, array, and exercise the Militia, and appoint Officers, who shall have the same Hank as in other Militia Forces.
III.Commissions not vacated by Revocation of the Powers of the Commissioners.
IV.Officers to possess certain Qualifications, and to take the Oaths and subscribe a Declaration as to their Qualification.
VI.Establishment of the Militia. Commissions to be inserted in Gazette.
VII.Penalty for acting without being qualified, or without delivering in a Description of his Qualification. Moiety of the Penalty to the Person who shal sue. On whom Proof of Qualification shall lie.
VIII.Men to be provided by the Wards in certain Proportions.
IX.Commissioners to issue Precepts to the Wards to raise the Men. Oath to be taken by Men. Penalty on Ward Officers for Default.
X.In ease of Deficiency of Men, fresh Precepts to be issued for others to be provided, or 15l. to be paid by the Ward for each Man wanting. Surplus of the Monies how to be applied.
XI.Aldermen, &c. to make a Rate to defray the Expences of raising Men.
XII.Appeal from Rates may be made to the Court of Mayor and Aldermen.
XIII.Rates may be levied by Distress. No Distress to be made out of the City, unless Warrant be backed by a Magistrate of the County, &c.
XIV.Penalty for not making Distress nor backing Warrants, or neglecting to aid in making Distress.
XV.Aldermen, &c. to be the Ward Assessors, and to appoint Collectors with an Allowance.
XVI.If the Aldermen, &c. neglect to provide Men, or pay or levy Rates, the Commissioners may levy and apply them ; to be made from the last Assessment of the Land Tax or Watch Rate ; and may call for the last Assessments from the Clerk, who shall produce it and give Copies on Penalty of 20l.
XVII.If Deserters or Absentees be not taken, or do not return in Three Months, the Commissioners to provide Men out of the Trophy Tax. Deserters, if taken, to be compelled to serve.
XVIII.Commissioners to provide out of the Trophy Tax Men to serve instead of those promoted.
XIX.Commissioners to appoint an Adjutant, Surgeon, Paymaster and Quartermaster.
XX.Proportion of Non-commissioned Officers and Drummers. Oath.
XXI.Militia to be exercised Twenty-eight successive Days annually.
XXII.Notice of the Time and, Place of Exercise to be affixed on the Church Doors, and Lists of the Men enrolled to be sent by the Clerk to the Colonel.
XXIII.Arms, &c. to be kept where the Commissioners shall appoint.
XXV.State of the Regiment, when called out to annual Exercise, to be returned to the Commissioners.
XXVI.In case of Invasion, &c His Majesty may order the Militia to be embodied.
XXVIII.Allowance to Non-commissioned Officers, &c. When disembodied, to be paid out of Trophy Tax.
XXIX.When Militia embodied &c. Commissioners may appoint an Agent.
XXX.Empowering the Lord Mayor, or any Three Magistrates, to call out permanent Staff for Suppression of Riots, &c.
XXXI.Permanent Staff to continue for One Month after passing this Act; and Non-commissioned Officers, &c. desirous of serving in the Regiment to be raised by this Act, at Liberty to do so, with Consent of the Commanding Officer.
XXXII.Pay received by Adjutants, Surgeons, Paymasters and Quartermasters, as Staff Officers in the present Militia, and also Allowances received by lieutenants, Ensigns, and Surgeons Mates, to be continued under the like Regulations as they now receive the same.
XXXIII.Officers now holding Commissions to retain the same Rank in the Army, if appointed to Commissions in the Militia.
XXXIV.Militia to enjoy the same Rights to the Artillery Ground as the former Militia.
XXXVI.Commissioners to appoint a Treasurer and Clerk. Account of Trophy Tax to be delivered to the Corporation before a new Rate is made.
XXXVIII.Collectors of the Month's Tax neglecting their Duty to be fined.
XXXIX.Commissioners may build an Head Quarters, and defray the Expences out of the Trophy Tax.
XL.And may accept Leases, &c. in the Name of their Treasurer.
XLI.Stock and Money in the Hands of the Executors of Edward Wigan, &c. may be applied towards building an Head Quarters.
XLII.Powers of the General Militia Act to apply to this Act, so far as the same are not altered hereby. The Wives and Families of Non-commisioned Officers, &c. not to have Allowance.
XLIII.24 G.2 c.44 to extend to the Mayor and Aldermen, Commissioners, Assessors, and Collectors.
XLVIII.No Rate or Proceedings to be quashed or vacated for Want of Form, or be removable by Certiorari, &c.
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