ART. VI

In time of war, rébellion, or when any other pressing exigency of the statc requires it, such number of officers, sergeants, and militia-men as the governor, lieutenant governor, or commander in chief, for the time being, thinks fit to direct, shall be.drawn out of the différent companies, marched from their respective parishes, to such place as they shall be ordered to, and serve, tho\ still as militia, in conjunction with his majesty's forces, under the guidancc and superintendence of the officers whom the commander in ch'pf shall be pleascd to appoint for that purpose : and at the end of the campaign, or of the service they were ordered upon, shall return to their own homes, but not before they hâve been regularly dismissed from the saine; any person refusing to obey such order, absconding, or not repairing to the place he is ordered to, shall incur double the penalties inflicted by the first article of this ordinance; and any one quitting the service, when so embodied, before he is discharged therefrom, shall moreover be expelled the corps, and never allowed to re-enter the same : And any person huying or purchasing arms, ammunition, or equipments, delivered out of his majesty's stores to the militia, when embodied, or any ammunition furnished out of the said stores, for training and exercising the said

(1) Gazette de Québec, 3 avril 1777.

aillitia, shall lncur a penalty of five pounds for every such offence, to be recovered apon the oath of one crédible witness before any one commissioner of thc peace in the district where such offence has been committed.

This ordinance to be in force for two years, and to the end of the session of the législative council of this province, whieh will be held in the year one thousand «even hundred and seventy nine.