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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Order in Council making Regulations under
which the services of Volunteers shall be
accepted in the Invercargill District.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCKLAND,
This 29th day of December.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled,
"The Militia Act, 1858," it is enacted that it
shall be lawful for th 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 Exc llency the
Governor, by and with the 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 following Regulations,
under whi h the services of Volunteers shall
be accepted in the District of Invercargill.

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 Dis-
   triệt, he shall, if he desire, be discharged
   Irom further 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
   or persons as he may from time to
   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 Adju
   tant and the Captain of his Company, shall
   forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding one
   pound for every day on which he shalt 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,
   hall 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 ervice, a
   fine, not exceeding the value of the arms,
   accoutrements, or other property, shall be
   paid by the Volunteer in whose charge they,
   ware; such fine to be fixed by the Adjutant
   and the Captain of the Company, upon con-
   sideration of the circumstances, and if not
   paid to the Adjutant on demand, may be
   recovere! by him on behalf of the Govern-
   ment in any Resident Magistrate's Court in
   the Colony.

9. Volunteers enrolled under these Regu-
   lations shall be subject to the provisions con-
   tained in the following sections of the "Mili-
   tia Act, 1858," namely, sections 1, 3, 5, 6, 7,

10. 18, 19, 20, 21, (except the proviso thereto),
    23, and 24; and of sections Nos. 10, 11, 12,
    13, 14, and 15, of the "Militia Act Amend-
    ment Act, 1860."

F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.

Warrant appointing Polling Places.

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 Z aland and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral
of the same, &c., &c., &c.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL
COME GREETING :

W HEREAS by "The Regulation of
Elections Act, 1858," it is enacted that
it shall be lawful for the Governor by warrant
under his hand from time to time to appoint
Polling Places for each Electoral District
within or without the limits thereof, and t
appoint any one of such places to be the
Principal Polling Place for the District, and
all or any of such Polling Places at any time
to abolish and to appoint other Polling Places
in lieu thereof:

NOW KNOW YE, that I, the Governor
of New Zealand, in pursuance of the
power and authority in me vested by the
said Act, do hereby appoint the following
places to be Polling Places for the res-
pective Electoral Districts hereinafter spe-
cified as constituted by the "Representation
Act, 1860," for the election of Members of the
House of Representatives, namely :-

Bay of Islands-
The Young Men's Association Room,
Waimate.

Parnell-
Part of a Brick Building adjoining Mr.
Law's premises, Parnell.

Raglan-
The Resident Magistrate's Court House,
Raglan.

Collingwood-
Mr. George Taylor's house, Takaka.

Wairau-
The Literary Institution, Picton,