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former years, contain votes of money for four classes of reserve, or auxiliary forces. The army estimates provide 720.034/. for the disembodied militia in the year 1870-71. The number to be called up for twenty-seven days' training is stated at 128,971, but a deduc- tion is made from the amount of pay required to the extent of one- fourth for cost of officers and men not enrolled or absent. The second class of auxiliary forces, the yeomanry cavalry, had 81,874/. voted to it in the army estimates of 1870-71. of which sum 43,218/. was to be expended in the payment of 7s. a day, for 8 days in the year, to 15,435 non-commissioned officers and men. The third class of auxiliary forces, the volunteers, had a vote of 412,399/. for the year 1870-71, being a decrease of 1,631/. over the preceding year. The capitation grants to the volunteers were calculated at 256,263/., distributed to. the artillery, at the rate of 30s. ; to the light horse, engineers, and rifles, at 205., with 10s. for extra effi- ciency; and at the rate of 5s. as travelling allowance for administrative battalions. The vote for the fourth and last class of reserve forces, namely the army reserve, including enrolled pensioners, was 68,020Z. for 1870-71, a decrease of 820/. over the preceding year. The capitation grants to the volunteers in 1869-70 amounted to 254,180/., or 2,083/. less than the vote for 1870-71.
The strength of the volunteer force of the United Kingdom in the year 1870 comprised 201,196 enrolled men, of whom 170,094 were efficient, and 31,102 non-efficient. The numbers, fluctuating at times, have been gradually on the increase since the year 1859, when the force Avas organised, as shown in the following tabular statement, giving the strength of the enrolled volunteers, efficient and non-efficient, in each of the years I860 to 1870 : —
Tear
Efficients
Non-Efficients
Total enrolled number
1860
105,918
12.425
118.343
1862
131.420
26.398
157,818
1863
113.511
49.424
162.935
1864
123.707
46.837
170.544
I860
] 33.848
44.636
178,484
1S66
142,S49
38,716
181.565
]867
155.216
32.648
187.864
1868
170.581
28,614
199.195
1869
174.548
28,758
199.306
1870
170,094
31,102
201,196
The volunteer corps now in existence were organised in conformitv with a notice from the War Office, dated May 12, 1859, sanctioning their formation, under the provisions of the Act Geo. III., cap. 54.
The total cost of the British army, voted by Parliament in the regular estimates for 1870-71,. was calculated at 13,093,500/.; but
