8.
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- possible to increase the strength
of
the Corps. But he would prefer to see
the proposed Machine Gan Corps strengthened as far as possible, and with this object would recommend that
the Artillery
Volunteers be
"invited to join the
Machine
Gun Corps.
9.
Should
Your Lordship
approve of the formation of the
new Corps, I should be obliged if you would instruct the Crown Agents to purchase 12 as described in General Edwards'
letter
of
the 16th of January, to which, as I have above
Mentioned,
the "Legislature has
agreed.
10. With regard to the points raised in the 7th paragraph of
Your Lordship's letter of the
21st of August 1888, the Attorney General reports that an amendment of the Volunteer
Ordinance
of 1882
would be necessary
to confer
on the
Governor the power to embody
the Volunteers permanently in
case of emergency.
Regulations
would also be necessary
to make
the Volunteer
subject
to the
Army Act in
case of
War.
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