Reserve Forces Act 1890
WHEREAS certain men engaged in railway, post office, or telegraph service, and being volunteers, have been enlisted in Her Majesty's regular forces, and immediately upon such enlistment been transferred, under the Army Act, 1881, to the reserve, and have been attached as supernumeraries to a volunteer corps, and doubts have arisen as to whether such enlistment, transfer, and attachment are authorised by law, and it is expedient to remove such doubts: