THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 5
Order in Council constituting a Warden's
Court for the Gold Field, Province of
Nelson.
AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND,
This 29th day of December.
Present:-
His Excellency the Governor in Council.
W HEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled,
the "Gold Fields Act, 1858," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor, by
Order in Council, from time to time, to con-
titute for any Gold Field or for any part
thereof, Wardens Courts, for the administra-
tion of Justice therein, and to appoint
Wardens as Judges of such Courts, with
power to act alone, or with Assessors or
Juries, and in such manner and to exercise
all or any of the powers thereinafter mentioned
as the Governor shall think fit to direct:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Go-
vernor in pursuance and exercise of the said
power and authority, doth hereby, with the
advice and consent of the Executive Council
of New Zealand, order that a Warden's Court
shall be, and the same is hereby constituted
and established for the Gold Field in the Pro-
vince of Nelson, constituted by a Proclama-
tion issued the fourth day of October, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and
doth appoint

JAMES MACKAY, the younger, ESQUIRE,
a Resident Magistrate, to be the Judge of
such Court, with power to act alone, or with
Assessors or Juries, and to exercise all the
powers by the said Act, conferred on
Warden's Courts, subject nevertheless to such
rules for regulating the procedure and prac-
tice therein, as shall from time to time be
made by the Governor in Council in pursuance
of the said Act.
F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.
Order in Council making Regulations under
which the services of Volunteers shall be
accepted in the Dunedin District.
AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND,
This 29th day of December.
Present:
His Excelleney the Governor in Council.
W HEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled,
"The Militia Act, 1858," it is enacted that it
shall be lawful for the Governor in Council
from time to time, to make, vary, and abolish
Regulations under which the services of
Volunteers shall be accepted in any Militia
district: Now, therefore, His Excellency the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the Colony, and
in the exercise of the powers in this behalf
vested in him by the said recited Act, doth
hereby make and ordain the following Regu-
lations under which the services of Voluneters
shall be accepted in the District of Dunedin.
F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.
REGULATIONS.

1. The term of service for each Volunteer
   to be one year from the day his services are,
   or in the case of Volunteers already enrolled
   were, accepted. Provided always that if any
   Volunteer shall go to reside out of the District,
   he shall, if he desire, be discharged from fur-
   ther service as a Volunteer.
2. Every Volunteer shall attend to be
   trained and exercised at such times as shall be
   appointed by the Governor, or by such per-
   son or persons as he may from time to time
   authorise in that behalf: Provided always
   that no Volunteer shall be compelled to attend
   more than one 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
   approval, by the Company to which they are
   proposed to be appointed.
5. The Adjutant and Staff Sergeant of the
   Regiment or Battalion of Militia of the Dis-
   trict in which Volunteers are serving shall
   ex officio act as Adjutant and Sergeant of the
   Volunteers, and all Sergeants 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 given out by the Adjutant.
   8 If any arms, accoutrements, or other
   Government property shall be injured or
   destroyed 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 con-
   sideration of the circumstances, and if not
   recovered on demand, may be recovered by him on behalf of the Govern-
   ment in any Resident Magistrate's Court in
   the Colony.
8. 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, 5, 6, 7, 9, 18,
   19, 20, 21, (except the proviso thereto,) 22,
   and 24; and of sections nos. 10, 11, 12, 13,
   14, and 15, of the "Militia Act Amendment
   Act, 1860."
   F. G. STEWARD,
   Clerk of Executive Council.