The Origin and Services of the 3rd (Montreal)

"""The Act also provided thatEach Field Battery shall consist of a captain, twofirst lieutenants, one second lieutenant, a sergeant major, three sergeants, threecorporals, three bombardiers, a trumpeter, a farrier, fifty-nine gunners and drivers,including wheelers, collar maker and shoeing smith, fifty-six horses, exclusive ofofficers horses, and four spare horses when the Battery is called into actual service."aSection XXXVII of the Act read as follows :Each sergeant major ofvolunteer battery of field artillery shall, on account of the great responsibilityattached to the office, be paid by the Province at the rate of fifty pounds per annum."Section CXV reads as follows : This Act shall come into operation upon thefirstday of July, 1855, and shall be in force for three years, and from thence untilthe end of the next ensuing session of the Parliament of this Province, and no longer ;THE 3RD MONTREAL FIELD BATTERY AS IT WAS IN 1893.ARMAMENT : FOUR g-iWNDKR R.M.L. GUNSprovided that if at the time when this Act would otherwise expire, there shouldhappen to be war between Her Majesty and the United States of America, then thisAct shall continue in force until the end of the session of the Provincial Parliamentnext after the proclamation of peace between Her Majesty and the said UnitedStates, and no longer."After enlisting the men, a good deal of time was consumed in making arrangements for the uniforms, etc. The officers finally selected a double breasted, bluefrock coat, red-striped artillery trousers, somewhat similar to those worn now, and ablack, shaggy, monkey skin head-dress, very much like the Fusilier bearskin, butwith the front of the crown slightly projecting. It was originally intended that thishead-dress should be devoid of ornament, but Staff Sergeant Stevenson suggested that27