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     Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, \Yednesday, June 19, 1867. 
     
    
   
   
    
     LAWS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     An Act to add to and amend the Act 
     
     for the regulation of the Militia and 
     
     Volunteer Forces. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     [Passed May 17, 1867.] 
     
     HEREAS it is deemed expedient to add 
     
     to and amend the Act of the Twenty-ninth 
     
     Victoria, Chapter Two, intituled “ An Act for 
     
     the regulation of the Militia and Volunteer 
     
     Forces,” as hereinafter mentioned. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant 
     
     J‘rovernor, Council and Assembly, as follows, 
     
     that is to say :—-—The Commander-in-Chief may 
     
     appoint officers with acting rank who shall have 
     
     the powers and authority of their rank and 
     
     shall be subject to the same penalties as com- 
     
     missioned officers for every breach of duty. 
     
    
   
   
    
     II. The Commander-in-Chief shall, from time 
     
     to time, and at such time or times as he shall 
     
     see fit, appoint a Board of three competent 
     
     persons to examine all officers, whose commis- 
     
     sions are by the said recited Act continued, and 
     
     may transfer any officer failing to pass such 
     
     examination to the Sedentary Force, or place 
     
     him on a retired list with or without a step of 
     
     honorary rank. 
     
    
   
   
    
     III. Effective members of Volunteer Com- 
     
     panies, of all ranks, shall be exempt from serving 
     
     on Juries or in the office of Constable, except 
     
     such Volunteers who have already been appointed 
     
     Constables for the current year, but who shall 
     
     also be exempt after the termination of their 
     
     present office of Constable. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IVS‘The members of the several Charlotte- 
     
     town, Summerside and Georgetown Fire Engine 
     
     Companies shall be exempt from attending 
     
     Muster, and from actual Muster at any time, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     except in case of war, invasion or insurrection, 
     
     and that whenever such exemption is claimed, 
     
     the burden of proof shall always be upon the 
     
     claimant, provided that the number so exempted 
     
     shall not exceed Eighty for the Charlottetown 
     
     Companies, and Twenty for the Summerside 
     
     Company; and Twenty for the Georgetown 
     
     Company, and that the senior members of the 
     
     said Companies shall have the first privilege of 
     
     such exemption; and each Company shall have 
     
     ajust proportion according to number exempted. 
     
    
   
   
    
     V. All members of Fire Engine Companies, 
     
     claiming exemption under this Act, shall not 
     
     be entitled to the same until they have tiled a 
     
     certificate, signed by the Chief Engineer of the 
     
     Fire Department- in Charlottetown, or the head 
     
     oflicer of the Fire Companies in Summerside 
     
     and Georgetown, in the office of Adjuatnt 
     
     General of Militia in Charlottetown, at least; 
     
     fourteen days previous to the time appointed 
     
    
   
   
    
     for Muster. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VI. Fire Wardens of Charlottetown, George- 
     
     town and Summerside shall be exempt from 
     
     Militia duty or Training. 
     
    

    
     VII. The qualifications of effectivcs shall, 
     
     from time to time, be prescribed by the Com- 
     
     mander-in-Chief, but no Volunteer who is not 
     
     uniformed, or who has not taken the oath of 
     
     allegiance, or not perfected himself in training 
     
     as far as instruction has been offered, or who 
     
     shall not maintain his efficiency in training to 
     
     the satisfaction of the Commander-in-Chief, the 
     
     Inspecting Field Officer and his Commanding 
     
     Officer, or who shall fail to attend any inspection 
     
     in uniform, or who shall not have attended six- 
     
     teen drills in the year, of not less duration than 
     
     one and a half hours each drill, irrespective of 
     
     Target practice, without leave of absence, shall