WINDHAM'S TRAINING ACT.
I.TO THE EDITOR OP THE "BrEcrAroit.1
Sin,—I have looked in vain for Windham's Training Act referred to in the Spectator of March 15th, 1913, and again in last week's number, March 29th, 1913. I can find no such act in the revised statutes nor any trace of it in the lists of repealed statutes. Can any of your correspondents find it ? Possibly it may have been in one of the many Militia Bina passed in the reign of George III., and long since repealed. I have not examined them : or it may have been a Bill brought in but not passed.—I am, Sir, &c., LINDLEY. The Lodge, East Carleton, Nr. Norwich.
[We have been engaged on two occasions in the same fruitless search, and, like Lord Lindley, should be delighted to have an exact reference to this elusive enactment. Mr. Fortesene, if we remember rightly, refers to it in his "British Statesmen of the Great War" as an Act, not a Bill, but even in his case the words employed have an uncertain ring. Let us hope that this Snark among statutes is not a Boojum.—* ED. Spectator.]
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