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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the Colony, and in exercise of the powers in
this behalf vested in him by the said recited
Act, doth hereby make and ordain the follow-
ing Regulations, under which the services of
Volunteers shall be accepted in the District of
Taranaki.

1. The term of service for each Volunteer
   to be one year from the day he is sworn in;
   provided always that if any Volunteer shall go
   to reside out of the district, he shall, if he
   desire, be discharged from further service as a
   Volunteer.
2. Every Volunteer shall attend to be trained
   and exercised at such time and place as shall
   be fixed by the Governor or by such person or
   persons as he may trom time to time authorise
   in that behalf: Provided also that no Volun-
   teer shall be compelled to attend to be trained
   or exercised more than one hundred and sixty-
   eight hours in any one year.
3. All officers of companies will be appointed
   by the Governor, and names for that purpose
   are to be submitted to him for his approval by
   the Company to which they are proposed to
   appointed.
4. The Adjutant and Staff Sergeant of the
   Taranaki Militia will act as Adjutant and
   Sergeant Major respectively to the Volunteers
   of the district, and all Sergeants and Corporals
   must be examined and passed as competent by
   the Adjutant before they will be appointed.
5. 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 inspeetion and information of the officers
   of the company to which they relate.
6. All orders and communications from the
   Governor or Government of the Colony shall
   be transmitted through and given out by the
   Adjutant.
7. Every Volunteer who shall absent himself
   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 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.
8. If any arms, accoutrements, ammunition,
   or other Government property shall be injured,
   destroyed, or expended, by being used except
   on service, the Volunteer in whose charge such
   arms, accoutrements, ammunition, or other
   property were at the time, shall pay a sum not
   exceeding the value of the same respectively.
9. Every Volunteer who shall appear at
   drill without the appointed arms, accoutre-
   ments, and dress, or any part thereof, or with
   the same in a dirty or neglected state, shall
   pay a sum not exceeding ten shillings for every
   such offence.
10. Every Volunteer who shall be guilty of
    inattention or carelessness or who shall. mis-
    behave himself at drill in any manner not
    before specified, shall pay a sum not exceeding
    twenty shillings nor less than five shillings for
    every such offence.
11. All such fines shall be fixed by the
    Captain and Adjutant and shall be paid to the
    Adjutant on demand, and if not so paid they
    may be recovered in a summary way by him
    on behalf of the Government in any Resident
    Magistrate's Court in the Colony.
12. Volunteers enrolled under these Regu-
    lations shall be subject to the provisions con-
    tained 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 except when assembled for the purpose
    of being trained and exercised only, and 24.
    F. G. STEWARD,
    Clerk of Executive Council.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of the
most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand, and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by the "New Zealand Post
Office Act, 1858," power is given to
the Governor in Council from time to time, to
make rules and regulations for the managing
of the several Post Offices of the said Colony,
for the receiving, dispatching, conveying, and
delivering of letters (including the imposition
of fees for private boxes and deliveries,) for the
detaining, opening, and return, or other dis-
posal of irregularly posted unclaimed and
refused letters, or such as from any cause
whatsoever cannot be delivered or forwarded,
and the contents thereof respectively, and for
the publication of the lists of the same, for the
making, custody, and sale of postage labels, for
the receiving and paying of money in connec-
tion with the said Postal Service, and for the
conduct of Post Officers, and any such rules
and regulations at any time in force, to alter,
vary, or revoke, and for the purpose of giving
effect to the rules and regulations so to be
made, further power is given to the Governor
in Council by the said Act, to impose any
penalty not exceeding Ten Pounds for any one
offence against such rules and regulations.

Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
in pursuance of the said recited power and au-
thority, do hereby, by and with the consent of
the Executive Council, make the rules and re-
gulations specified in the Schedule hereinafter
written, and do impose the penalties for the
infraction thereof respectively as therein set
forth.

Given under my hand at the Go-
vernment House, at Auck-
land, in the said Colony, this
13th day of January, in the
year of Our Lord, One-
thousand eight hundred and
fifty-eight.

T. GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!