12 The Lieutenancy have power to dispose of so much of the
Trophy Money as to them shall seem expedient to the
Inferiour Officers for their pains and encouragement your
Committee are of Opinion that the payments abovementioned
to the Captains can by no means be warranted by the said clause
but that the payment to the three Serjeants is expressly within
that law: As to the £10 to Capt. Enbank The Committee observe
that his demand came to £46:7s:11d of which he is allowed £10
only in a gross Sum so that it does not appear upon or of what
heads that £10 is made up and consequently whether the whole or
any part of it is or is not justly and regularly allowed him by
the Lieutenancy Your Committee have had no opportunity of
examining into the truth of an Objection which may possibly
be made by the several Capts. Viz. That this Money is by them
distributed to the Inferiour Officers but take it upon the face of
the order that the money is paid them to their men use and with
regrett observe that two of the Deputy Lieutenants who appear
to have sign'd the order for the Distribution have thereby carved
for themselves and reced each their £10 as Capts. Your Committee
are the rather enclined to think that the Capts have no legal title
to this money from the Consideration of the 9th section of the
same statute which seems to distinguish between Inferiour
and Commissioned Officers and provides another sort of
Recompence for the Commisioned Foot Officers. Whereby it is
provided "That every Commisioned Foot Officer in the trained
"Bands or Militia of this Kingdom (settled according to act of
"Parliament shall be and is thereby exempted and excused
"from finding and contributing towards the finding any horse
"Horseman or anns for his whole estate if at any time it is charged
"but with one horse or a less charge or for such part of his estate
"as is or shall be charged with one Horse if his whole estate be
"charged with a greater charge than one Horse in the County or
"Lieutenancy where he so serves as a Foot officer in respect of the
"expence which the said employment doth necessarily engage
"him in. As to the Rent for their office and officers salarys and
charges your Committee think they may be reasonably enough
included within the words of the act The Trophy Money
being raised for furnishing ammunition and other
Necessarys. But as for Trophies which give the name to this
tax your Committee are informed that only one set has been
provided for the Militia since his present Maties Accession
Altho' money has been raised for that purpose every year but