Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society . ornon-attendance. 25. If active service (or real service as called), is or-dered, men to be chosen by ballot from those between 18 and45 years. 26. Clerks and laborers in H. M. Ordnance Stores andNaval Yard need not serve, but must provide substitutes attheir own expense. There is little of interest to chronicle in this and the yearsimmediately following. The running expenses of the force atthe beginning of this period were about fifteen hundred poundsper annum, exclusive of what was spent in the purchase ofarms and accoutrements: and there i
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society . ornon-attendance. 25. If active service (or real service as called), is or-dered, men to be chosen by ballot from those between 18 and45 years. 26. Clerks and laborers in H. M. Ordnance Stores andNaval Yard need not serve, but must provide substitutes attheir own expense. There is little of interest to chronicle in this and the yearsimmediately following. The running expenses of the force atthe beginning of this period were about fifteen hundred poundsper annum, exclusive of what was spent in the purchase ofarms and accoutrements: and there is nothing to indicatethat this figure was exceeded to any appreciable extent duringthe next few years. In 1831 a new battalion was formed in Sydney county(now Antigonish), and one in Cape Breton. In April of sameyear the 5th Halifax regiment was also organized, its strengthbeing obtained by detaching the five Musquodoboit companiesof the 3rd regiment, and the Shubenacadie company of the 1832 another regiment was formed in Halifax county and. THOMAS RITCHIE, (1777-1852.)Annapolis Regiment. (From an oil painting in the possession of Captain Jas. D. Ritchie.) THE MILITIA OF NOVA SCOTIA, 1749-1867. 87 one in Hants; in 1833 another in Cape Breton, making a totalof eight from that island. Seven hundred pounds was grantedby the House to pay the Inspecting Field officers, whose sal-aries, as well as the other trifling amounts required for militiapurposes, were always a bone of contention between the twopolitical parties. Social functions were not lacking in connection with mili-tary life. In January the Rifle company of the 1st Halifaxregiment gave a ball in the Masons Hall; in February theRifle company of the 3rd regiment, and in March the Lightcompany of the 2nd regiment repeated this popular form ofentertainment. This is merely mentioned as chronicling whattook place yearly during the remainder of the period now co-vered, and need not be referred to again: it is suff
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