this day. And likewise the further sum of £. actual expences incurred by the said and for printing day of and stationery used for the purpose of the said acts up to this day. Given under our hands the thousand eight hundred and Signed by two deputy-lieutenants. Confirmed at a general meeting of lieutenancy, held at in the said county, on one thousand eight hundred and the day of Signed by five deputy-lieutenants. one No. 55. Certificate of the Deputy-lieutenants of the correctness of the Accounts of Charges for transacting the Business of the Militia. We, the undersigned deputy-lieutenants assembled at meeting of lieutenancy for the held this do day of one thousand eight hundred and hereby certify upon honour that the foregoing account is correct in regard to the several statements therein stated, and we do approve the same and recommend that the amount may be paid to the person interested. viz. Deputy-lieutenants. No. 56. Confirmation of the above Certificate by Deputylieutenants in General Meeting. whose We, the deputy-lieutenants of the county of names are hereunto subscribed, assembled at a general meeting of his majesty's lieutenancy for the said county, holden the day and year hereunder written, do hereby confirm the foregoing approval and recommendation of the sum of being the amount of charges which we consider reasonable and proper for the transaction of business under the several acts of parliament relating to the militia forces of England and Wales. Dated at day of in the year of this our Lord one thousand eight hundred and , the lord-lieutenant, [or deputy-lieutenants assembled at a general meeting of lieutenancy.] No. 57. Commitment of a Constable convicted before two Deputy-lieutenants of Neglect, Fraud, or Partiality, under 42 Geo. 3. c. 90. s. 32. These are in his majesty's name to command you and every of you the said officers forthwith safely to convey and deliver into the custody of the keeper of at in the said county, the body of A. B. constable of the parish of in the county aforesaid, convicted before us W. R. & E. R. M., esquires, two of his majesty's deputy lieutenants, [or, as it may be], in and for the said county, for that [set forth the offence]. And you, the said keeper, are hereby required pursuant to the directions of the act passed in the forty-second year of the reign of his late majesty king George the third, intituled "An Act for amending the laws relating to the militia in England, and for augmenting the militia," to receive the said A. B. into your said prison, and him there safely keep for the space of [one month] from the date hereof, and for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant and authority. Given under our hand and seals the one thousand eight hundred and day of No. 58. Oath to be taken by a Militia-man when called out at the Place of Assembly. I, A. B., do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to his majesty king George the fourth, and that I will faithfully serve his majesty within Great Britain so long as I shall be required so to do, under the provisions of an act for enabling his majesty to train and exercise a proportion of his subjects, and to provide for the defence of the realm. So help me God. No. 59. Oath of a Ballotted Man to serve in the Local Militia, under 52 Geo. 3. c. 33. s. 32. I, A. B., do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to his majesty king George the fourth, and that I will faithfully serve in the local militia of within Great Britain, for the defence of the same during the term of four years for which I am enrolled, unless I shall be sooner discharged. So help me God. No. 60. Certificate of levying 51. on a Witness not attending, under 52 Geo. 3. c. 38. s. 203. This is to certify, that I [or, we, as the case may be] one [or more] of his majesty's justices of the peace [or, deputylieutenants, as the case may be] did, on the the sum of day of last past, levy upon pounds, being the amount of fine imposed [here specify the offence] under the act for amending the laws relating to the local militia of England. Dated this I (Signed) No. 61. Form of Oath. day of W. R. justice. do make oath, that I am by my trade a and have been usually resident in the parish of in the county of ; that I am unmarried, [or, have a wife living, as the case may be]; and that I have no children, [or, not more than two children, born in wedlock]; and that I have no rupture, nor ever was troubled with fits, and am no ways disabled by lameness or otherwise, but have the perfect use of my limbs, and that I am not a seaman or seafaring As witness my hand at man. one thousand eight hundred and the day of day of Witness present, No. 62. Conviction under 52 Geo. 3. c. 38. s. 204. County of Be it remembered, That on the to wit. eight hundred and the county of day of in the year of our Lord one thousand at in was convicted before me, W. R. esq. one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the said county [or us W. R. and E. R. M. esquires, two of his majesty's justices of the peace, &c. residing near the place where the offence was committed; for that the said on the day of now last past, did contrary to the form of the statute in that case made and provided, [set forth the offence against the statute], and I [or we] do declare and adjudge, that the said hath forfeited the sum of No. 63. Order for Justices of the Peace to provide County of 1 to wit. by Carriages. To all and every his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of [or, it [or, by may be addressed to one justice by name] lord-lieutenant of the county of esq. lieutenant-colonel commandant of the ment of local militia]. on the day of regi regi in the county next, to days, [or for Whereas it is his majesty's pleasure that the ment of local militia should be embodied at of be trained and exercised for the space of the suppression of riots and tumults, as it may require;] you are hereby required pursuant to the act in that case made and provided, to issue out your warrants to the chief constables of hundreds, rapes, lathes, wapentakes or divisions, within the said county of or tithe, constables, tithingmen, headboroughs, or other officers of the several parishes, tithings, or places in the said county of through [or from or near] which the said regiment is ordered to pass on their route from requiring them to provide waggons or other sufficient carriages, to convey the arms, clothes, accoutrements, ammunition, and other stores belonging to the said regiment, with able horses to draw such carriages to to on the from one thousand eight hundred and All the other forms requisite to be used for the local militia, may be the same as those under the title " Regular Militia." 238 MISDEMEANOR. A MISDEMEANOR comprehends all crimes, for which no particular name is given, and which does not amount to felony. 4 B. Com. 5. [Christian's note (2) ]. Persons guilty of misdemeanors are punishable by fine and imprisonment, or both, according to the nature and degree of the offence, but many offences are specifically punishable as misdemeanors, by statute. Perjury, battery, libels, conspiracies, public nuisances, keeping disorderly houses, obtaining money under false pretences, soliciting a servant to steal his master's goods, advising children or others to commit thefts, receiving stolen goods, being indictable offences, are misdemeanors, and for every such offence which subjects the delinquent to corporal punishment, though it does not amount to a breach of the peace, he may on a regular warrant of a justice of the peace be arrested. In modern practice it is not usual for justices of the peace out of sessions to issue a warrant for a libel, or for perjury; though where an illegal publication is manifestly dangerous in its tendency to the public interests, they will exercise that discretion with which long practice has invested them. 1 J. B. Moore, 195. 1 B. & B. 548. Gow. 84. This also they will always do on the commission of a misdemeanor, which involves an attempt to commit felony. For form of a Warrant to apprehend for a Misdemeanor, (in common form) see title WARRANT, post. For the commencement and conclusion of commitments, see forms, p. 264. to p. 286. Vol. I. No. 1. Commitment for keeping a Disorderly House. [With keeping and maintaining certain disorderly houses respectively, in in the said parish,] against the peace, &c. No. 2. The like, for keeping a Bawdy House. [For that the said keeps a house of ill fame, and that lewd women frequently resort thither with men, of disso |