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hundred and sixty-eight hours in any one
year.
3. Every Volunteer who shall absent him-
self during any part of the time appointed for
training or exercise, and shall not account for
such absence to the satisfaction of the Adjutant
and the Captain of his Company, shall forfeit
and pay any sum not exceeding one pound for
every day on which he shall be so absent, to be
recovered in a summary way.
4. All Officers of Companies will be ap-
pointed by the Governor, and names for that
purpose are to be submitted to him for his ap-
proval by the Company to which they are pro-
posed to be appointed.
5. The Adjutant and Staff Serjeant of the
Auckland Militia, will act as Adjutant and
Serjeant Major, respectively, to the Volunteers
of the District, and all Serjeants and Corporals
must be examined and passed as competent by
the Adjutant before they will be appointed.
6. All rolls, documents, and correspondence
shall be kept at the office of the Adjutant, and
shall be open at all times during office hours for
the inspection and information of the Officers
of the Company to which they relate.
7. All orders and communications from the
Governor, or Government of the Colony, shall
be transmitted through, and be given out by
the Adjutant.
8. If any arms, accoutrements, or other
Government property shall be injured or des-
troyed by being used except on service, a fine not
exceeding the value of the arms, accoutrements,
or other property, shall be paid by the Volunteer
in whose charge they were; such fine to be
fixed by the Adjutant and the Captain of the
Company, upon consideration of the circum-
stances, and if not paid to the Adjutant on
demand, may be recovered by him on behalf of
the Government in any Resident Magistrate's
Court in the Colony.
9. Volunteers enrolled under these Regula-
tions shall be subject to the provisions contained
in the following sections of the "Militia Act,
1858," namely, sections 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 18, 19,
20, 21, (except the Proviso thereto) 22, 23,
and 24.

F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 30th November, 1858.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it
to be notified that the President of the
United States of America has, by a Commis-
sion bearing date the 28th day of August,
1856, constituted

GEORGE R. WEST, ESQ.,

to be Consul at the Bay of Islands, and for
such other parts as shall be nearer thereto than

Printed and Published by W. C. WILSON, for the New Zealand Government, at the Printing
Office, Shortland Crescent, Auckland.

to the residence of any other Consul, or Vice-
Consul of the United States, and that Her
Majesty has been pleased to approve of such
appointment, and to grant Her Royal Exe-
quatur accordingly.

H. J. TANCRED,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

Attorney-General's Office,
30th November, 1858.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to authorize

A. W. SHAND, Esq.,

Resident Magistrate of the Chatham Islands,
to grant Licences for the importation and sale
of arms, gunpowder, &c., in conformity with
the provisions of the proclamation of the 25th
June, 1857.

FREDK. WHITAKER.

Office of Minister for Native Affairs,
Auckland, 30th November, 1858.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been
pleased to appoint

GEORGE GIBSON, ESQ., M.D.,

to be Colonial Surgeon at Wanganui, vice Dr.
G. Rees, deceased.

FREDK. WHITAKER,
In the absence of the Minister for Native affairs.

Registrar-General's Office,
Auckland, 26th November, 1858.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act
of the General Assembly of New Zealand,
entitled "The Marriage Act, 1854," the fol-
lowing Name of an OFFICIATING MINISTER
within the meaning of the said Act, is pub-
lished for general information :-

UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND
IRELAND.

The Reverend George Henry Johnstone.

I, John B. Bennett, Registrar-General of
Births, Deaths, and Marriages in New Zealand,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Name of
an OFFICIATING MINISTER within the meaning
of "The Marriage Act, 1854," has been sent
in, to me, in addition to the Names in Lists
published respectively in the "New Zealand
Government Gazette" Number 2, of the 26th
of January; Number 4, of the 11th of Feb-
ruary; Number 8, of the 19th March; Number
12, of the 13th April; Number 15, of the 15th
of May; No. 19. of the 30th of June; No.
23, of the 20th of August; and No. 28, of
3rd of November, in the present year.

Given under my hand, at Auckland,
this twenty-sixth day of No-
vember, 1858.

JOHN B. BENNETT,
Registrar-General.