the Volunteer Corps consequent on their disarmament.
3 267 to them) runs that the arms lent to the Colonial Volunteers shall be liable to be recalled at any time by the
5. To this it was replied that General Brown had perused the printed Rules of 18th March 1862, and that he looked on the first paragraph as warranting him in recalling them for immediate service.
6. I should mention that the Rules in question were forwarded to me in Your Lordship's letter of 14 May, 1862. Now the 1st paragraph of these Rules (as will be seen) refers to recall by the Home Government - notified through one of Her Majesty's Secretaries of State, for if it meant recall by the Senior Military Officer it was arbitrary and difficult to see wherein Brigadier General Staveley had incurred the disapproval expressed by Sir Edward Lugard.
9. It was, however, General Brown's request for military...
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