hundred and sixty-eight hours in any one
year.

4. No Volunteer shall be absent during
   any part of any time appointed for training
   and exercise; and every Volunteer who shall
   offend against this Regulation shall for such
   offence forfeit and pay any such sum not
   exceeding One Pound, as shall be fixed by
   the Officer Commanding, as aforesaid, which
   sum so fixed shall be recoverable in a sum-
   mary way by any Officer of the body of
   Volunteers to the person so offending
   may belong.

5. No Volunteer who shall, previous to
   the issue of a Summons under the foregoing
   Regulations, produce to such Officer Com-
   manding as aforesaid a Certificate signed by
   a duly qualified Medical Practitioner, that
   such absence was unavoidably caused by
   such illness, or satisfy the Commanding Officer of
   his illness, and no Volunteer who shall be
   absent, having duly obtained leave of absence
   from such Officer Commanding as aforesaid,
   shall be liable to the penalty set forth in the
   foregoing Regulation.

6. If any Volunteer\'s Arms or Accoutre-
   ments shall, in the opinion of the Officer
   Commanding as aforesaid, be in a defective
   or dirty state, he shall forfeit and pay any
   sum not exceeding two shillings and sixpence,
   to be fixed and recoverable in manner as
   aforesaid.

7. If any Arms, Accoutrements or other
   Government property shall be lost, destroyed,
   or injured in any way other than on service,
   a fine not exceeding the value of the Arms,
   Accoutrements, or other Government pro-
   perty shall be paid by the Volunteer in
   whose charge they were. Such fine shall be
   fixed by a Board of Officers appointed for
   that purpose by the Officer Commanding as
   aforesaid upon consideration of the circum-
   stances, and if not paid to them on demand,
   may be recovered by the Officer Command-
   ing as aforesaid, on behalf of the Government,
   in any Resident Magistrate\'s Court, in the
   Colony.

8. If any Volunteer shall not deliver to the
   Officer Commanding as aforesaid, the Arms,
   Accoutrements and other Government pro-
   perty entrusted to him as a Volunteer, within
   three days after an order to that effect shall
   have been given to him by the Officer Com-
   manding as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a
   penalty of Ten Pounds, to be recovered in a
   summary way.

9. All Commissioned Officers shall be ap-
   pointed by the Governor, and names for that
   purpose shall be submitted to him (through
   the Officer Commanding as aforesaid, for his
   approval,) by the Troop or Company to

which they are proposed to be appointed, No
Commissions will be issued (unless to Officers
who have held Commissions in the regular
service) until the Candidates are found fit
after examination.

10. All Non-commissioned Officers shall
    be elected by the Volunteers of the Troop or
    Company to which they are to be appointed,
    and shall be examined by the Senior Officer
    of such Troop or Company, and if passed as
    competent, shall be appointed by the Officer
    Commanding as aforesaid.

11. All Volunteers shall be subject to the
    provisions contained in the following Sections
    of the "Militia Act, 1858," viz:-1, 3, 5, 6,
    7, 9, 18, 19, 20, 22, and 24, and in the fol-
    lowing Sections of the "Militia Act Amend-
    ment Act, 1860," viz:-10, 11, 13, 14, 16,
    and 18.

12. General Parades of all the Volunteers
    in each District shall be held on a day in
    each quarter to be fixed by the Governor.

13. Each Troop or Company which shall
    consist of sixty Volunteers or more, shall
    receive from the Government annually the
    sum of seventy-five pounds.

14. Each Volunteer, after four years\' ser-
    vice as such, shall be at all times thereafter
    exempt from attendance for training and
    exercise in the Militia; half the period of
    service of Volunteers under former Regula-
    tions this day abolished, shall be allowed to
    reckon.

15. Every Volunteer shall take the follow-
    ing Oath, to be administered to him by the
    Commanding Officer of the body of volunteers
    in which he intends to serve, or by the Ad-
    jutant of Militia.
    "I,

do sincerely promise and
swear that I will be faithful and bear true
allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria,
and that I will faithfully serve in the

charged."

until I shall be lawfully dis-

16. In the construction of these Regula-
    tions the phrase "Officer Commanding" shall
    in case of his absence from the District, or
    incapacity to act by reason of illness, or any
    other cause, mean the Officer of the same
    body of Volunteers next in seniority.

HAMPDEN WILLIS,
For Clerk of Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary\'s Office
Auckland, 16th January, 1862

REFERRING to the above
Regulations for Volunteer Forces, the
Government will propose a measure to the
House of Representatives making provision
to the following effect :—