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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

MILITIA.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 27th March, 1861.

THE Governor has been pleased to approve
the following Regulations, Rules, and
Orders respecting the Militia and Volunteer
Militia Service of New Zealand, and directs
that they be strictly observed throughout the
Colony.

These Regulations, Rules, and Orders are
applicable to all Stations at which Mi itia or
Volunteers may be serving; and the Officers
employed on the Staff, and the respective
Commanding Officers are responsible that
they be invariably adhered to.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Command and Rank of Officers.

1. Colonels in Her Majesty's Regular
   Forces will take rank, precedence, and
   command of all Officers in the Militia and
   Volunteer Militia.

2. Officers in Her Majesty's Regular
   Forces of each grade below that of Colonel
   will take rank and precedence of Officers of
   equal degree in the Militia and Volunteer
   Militia.

3. All commands in the Militia and Volun-
   teer Militia belong to the eldest Officer,
   whether of Cavalry, Artillery, or Infantry,
   and all Officers in the Militia and Volunteer
   Militia of each degree, will take rank and
   precedence together as one Service according
   to the dates of their respective Commissions.

4. Officers relinquishing their Commissions
   in the Militia Service are not to be considered
   as retaining any rank therein either from
   them or from any Brevet Commission they
   may have held, except in cases which may be
   exempted from this Regulation by the
   Governor's especial authority.

5. Officers of Militia (see Queen's Regula-
   tions, see Page 4, Par. 12), having also Rank
   in Her Majesty's Regular Service are not
   permitted whilst serving in the Militia to avail
   themselves (in so far as the Militia is concer-
   ed) of any other Rank than that which they
   hold by virtue of their Militia Commissions.

6. When an Adjutant holds the Rank of
   Captain in addition to the appointment of
   Adjutant, he will take rank, precedence, and
   command after the junior Captain of the
   Regiment, irrespective of the date of his
   Commission as Captain.

Appointment, Promotion, and Resignation of
Officers.

1. No person will be eligible to hold a
   Commission in the Militia until he has attain-
   ed the age of seventeen years.

2. All recommendations for Commissions are
   to certify the eligibility of the person recom-
   mended in respect to education, character,
   and bodily health, and to state his Christain
   Names in full, age and place of address.

3. All applications regarding Militia ap-
   pointments, promotions, exchanges or
   removals, or for permission to retire from the
   Militia Service are to be transmitted through
   the Deputy Adjutant General by the Senior
   Officer of the Regiment or Battalion to which
   the applicant belongs, who will forward them
   with such remarks as he may think fit.

4. The New Zealand Gazettes published by
   authority, in which all Militia and Volunteer
   Militia appointments, promotions, and remo-
   vals are inserted, and which are transmitted
   by the Colonial Secretary to all Command-
   ing Officers of Regiments, Battalions, and
   Corps are to be considered as official no-
   tifications of the appointments, &c., so pub-
   lished.

5. When an Officer is desirous of retiring
   from the Militia service he is to send his
   resignation through the Commanding Officer
   of his Regiment to the Deputy Adjutant
   General.

6. Officers who give in the resignation of
   their Commissions are not in consequence
   absolved from duty until it has been notified
   that their resi nation has been accepted in
   the New Zealand Gazette.

7. Commanding Officers of Regiments of
   Militia and Volunteer Militia when embodied
   and serving on Actual Service under the
   Command of an Officer in Her Majesty's
   Regular Service, are previously to forward-
   ing the resignation of his Commission by any
   Officer to submit it to the Officer in Command
   for his remarks.

8. Officers on being newly appointed to
   Commissions in the Militia Service, are liable
   to serve whenever called upon to do so by
   the Officer Commanding the Regiment Bat-
   talion or Corps to which they may be ap-
   pointed.

Correspondence.

1. All correspondence which relates to
   subjects connected with the discipline and
   efficiency of the Militia and Volunteer Forces
   is to be addressed to the Deputy Adjutant-
   General of Militia and Volunteers, Auckland.

2. All correspondence relative to disburse-
   ments or pecuniary claims to pay, allowances,
   clothing, the purchase of arms, ammunition,
   stores, and works of all kind connected with
   Militia and Volunteer expenditure, or which
   refer to the construction and explanation of
   Acts of the Legislature, is to be addressed to
   the Colonial Secretary, Auckland, endorsed
   "Militia Branch."

3. Official letters are to contain in them-
   selves full information of all particulars upon
   the subject to which they relate, and each
   letter is to refer to one subject only.

MILITIA NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 27th March 1861.

WITH reference to the Militia Notice of
the 11th December last, published in
Gazette No. 39, of the 14th December, 1860,
the respective Senior Officers of Battalions