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i8 Sth ROYAL SCOTS OF CANADA The following General Order was published about this time: "Office of the Adjutant General of Militia, 'General Order of Militia, I2th Sept., 1827. "His Excellency the Governor and Commander in Chief takes an early opportunity to express to the battalions of militia in Lower Canada, his sentiments on certain recent proceedings which nearlj' concern their loyalty and honor. "It is well-known that the laws vmder which the militia force has been regulated for many years have been enacted for short periods, and have been repeatedly renewed as a substitute for the permanent laws passed in 1787 and 1789. "These temporary acts, however, not having been renewed in the last session of the provincial parliament, expired on the ist May, and it was immediately notified to the militia, by His Excellency's directions, that under existing circumstances, the old permanent ordinances came into force. "Evil disposed persons were not wanting to spread doubts upon the subject; and to these were added gross misrepresentations and calumnies regarding the intentions of the executive government, all tending to create discontent and dissatisfaction in the province, but more particularly to induce the militia to object against and disobey the orders issued under those ordinances for the usual musters in summer. "The Governor-in-Chief has seen with great satisfaction that the utmost exertions of the ill-disposed have totally failed to disturb the natural disposition of the people to order and obedience. With very few exceptions, and those chiefly of officers holding commissions, the musters of July and August have been unusually numerous and well attended. It is therefore an important and most agreeable duty to His Excellency to offer his warmest acknowledgements in approbation of that conduct, by which the battalions of militia have shown their proper sense of duty. "But while the Governor-in-Chief thus gives the reward of praise where it is so well merited, he feels that his duty imperiously calls upon him, at this time, to deprive of the distinction of holding commissions in the militia, all such persons as have neglected to attend at the musters required by law, or who, by their conduct or language at public meetings have failed in that respect which is due to the representative of the sovereign. This, however, is a work of time and investigation, which, though necessarily attended with some delay, will not fail to receive His Excellency's serious and deliberate consideration. "By order of His Excellency the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief. December 12th, following effect: 1827 appeared a General Order to the "The Governor-in-Chief having for some time past occupied himself in considering the reports of reviews by officers commanding battalions of militia, has great satisfaction in again expressing his approbation of the general disposition and orderly conduct of this great national force. The reviews have been fully attended, and there are but few instances in which the Governorin-Chief could think it at all necessary to express censure. His Excellency therefore conveys to all and to each battalion his thanks for their conduct, trusting that next summer, he shall find no cause to repeat the only disagreeable part of the duty which remains for him to perform—that is, to publish the names of those officers who can offer no efficient apology for their neglect of duty and absence from muster. "The Governor-in-Chief further desires it to be understood that where the commissions are noted as "cancelled," the conduct of the officers has not only been negligent, but has tended to induce the militiamen to refuse obedience to orders. "The commissions of the following officers are hereby cancelled: "Ensign ly. Moquin, 4th Battalion, Huntingdon; Captain H. Heney, 3rd Battalion, Montreal; Captains Nicholas BrouUlet, Etienne Frechette, Louis Garceau, Joseph Demers, 2nd Battalion of Kent; Ensign Pepin, 3rd Battalion, Buckinghamshire; Captains Auguste Quesnel, L. J. Papineau, J. R. RoUand, L- M. Viger, F. Roy, 2nd Battalion, Montreal; Lieut, and Aide- Major, S. Neilson, 4th Battalion, Quebec; Ensign J. B. Tetu, 2nd Battalion, Devon." All of these removals from the militia were of course held up as arbitrary abuses of the executive power, and the agitating politicians and disaffected generally redoubled their exertions in the work of agitation, and with some effect, for the removals of man}^ other officers from the militia were considered necessary. WhUe the affairs of the provincial militia were in this unsatisfactory condition, Lord Dalhousie undertook to effect an important reform in the system under which the militia in the City of Quebec were divided into "British" and "Canadian" battalions, a system which tended to keep alive an inexpedient and impolitic distinction. Consequently a MUitia General Order was issued under date April 28, 1828 reading as follows: "His Excellency the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief, being desirous to do away with the distinction which has always been supposed to exist in the militia of Quebec, as forming one English and two Canadian battalions, has thought proper to order that to each battalion has been allotted a certain portion of the city, in which all householders or lodgers shall be en- "F. Vassal de Monviel, Adjt.-Gen., Mil." rolled, whether British or Canadian born—that no distinction of religion shall be considered—and that arrangements shall be made gradually, to appoint to each bat-
MAJOR F. S. MEIGHEN SENIOR MAJOR 1904 MAJOR D. C. S. MILLER JUNIOR MAJOR
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