§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading read.
THE EARL OF LONGFORD, in moving that the Bill be now read the second time, said, that it was supplemental to that that had just been read the second time. It 1329 gave power to the Crown, through the Secretary of State, to enrol a proportion, not exceeding one-fourth, of the full quota of the Militia, who would be enlisted under the special condition of being transferred to the regular army on the emergency of war or invasion. At all other times their duties would be exactly similiar to those of the other Militia regiments, but they would receive a higher rate of bounty, and be liable to a somewhat longer period of training.
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House To-morrow.