MIDDLESEX

AT the General Session of the Peace of our
Lord the King, holden in and for the County of Middlesex , at
the Session House for the said County, ()
on the Day of in the

Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
GEORGE the Third of Great Britain, Etc

The Following Letter from the Secretary at War being laid before the Court and read
Vizt.

War Office 4th. April 1796

Sir,

I have duly considered the Papers which you did me the honour
of Transmitting in your letter of the 1st instant; and I am to acquaint you
that it has been the rule of this department, to avoid as much as possible all
interference respecting the interior and municipal Provisions of the Militia Laws
I agree in Opinion with the Magistrates of the County of Middlesex that Notice
ought to be given by the Commanding Officers, To the Treasurers of the Respective
Counties, of all casualties occurring in the Embodied Militia by Death Desert [..]
or Discharge, and By Promotion from the Ranks; in order to prevent relief
being continued to the Families of the Men, after the right thereto has actually
cedsed: but it appears to me, that a Regulation for that purpose which in its
operation is to superside the orders of the Justices of the Peace given in
Conformity to the Existing Laws, can only with propriety be made by the
Authority of Parliament.

I have the honour to be
Sir
Your most obedient
Humble Servant
W Windham

Resolved that the Treasurer be directed to assist the Clerk of the Peace in Forming
a Letter to the several subdivision Meetings of the Deputy Lieutenants for the
Purpose of obtaining from them the Necessary Information required by him