Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society . ince with the ex-ception of corporal punishment. Other changes were made bythe Act, but of a minor nature. Drills and parades were steadily gone on with by the volun-teers this year; also the militia had the privilege of no less thanfive days duty, each daily parade being for four hours: in ad-dition to this the officers were required to perform twenty-eightdrills each of three hours duration. The volunteers turned outalso with the sister force during the year now under of these general parades were devoted to company drilland on
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society . ince with the ex-ception of corporal punishment. Other changes were made bythe Act, but of a minor nature. Drills and parades were steadily gone on with by the volun-teers this year; also the militia had the privilege of no less thanfive days duty, each daily parade being for four hours: in ad-dition to this the officers were required to perform twenty-eightdrills each of three hours duration. The volunteers turned outalso with the sister force during the year now under of these general parades were devoted to company drilland one to battalion movements. A review was held on the 21st June, in which the Windsor,Halifax and Truro volunteer companies paraded with the Im-perial troops. In October the provincial rifle matches wereheld in Truro and in a general way the spirit of evincing an ear-nest desire for progress was shown. In this years report to theHome Authorities, the stated That there is inthis province at present a very laudable desire to improve the. JOHN WIMBURN LAURIE, (1835-1912).Deputy Adjutant-General of Militia.
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