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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

NOTICE.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 16th January, 1862.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to cancel the following appointments held by ISAAC RHODES COOPER, Esq.:-
Major in the Wanganui Regiment of Militia
(Commission dated April 16, 1860.)
Major Commanding the Wanganui Volun-
teers (Commission dated April 16, 1860.)
Deputy of the Governor; under Warrant,
dated 3rd July, 1861.

By His Excellency's Command.

WILLIAM FOX,
Colonial Secretary.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCK-
LAND, THE 16TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1862.

Present:-
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR,
THE HON. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,
THE HON. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

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 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, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the Colony, and in exer-
cise of the powers in this behalf vested in him
by the said recited Act, doth hereby make
and ordain the following Regulations under
which the Services of Volunteers shall be
accepted in any Militia District within the
Colony:-

1. All such Regulations heretofore made
   are hereby abolished.

2. There shall be no limit to the term
   of service, of any Volunteer: Provided that
   any Volunteer shall be entitled to be discharged
   at the expiration of One Month's notice in
   writing given by him to the Officer Command-
   ing the body of Volunteers to which he may
   belong of his own desire to be so discharged;
   and, in case such Officer Commanding shall be
   satisfied that urgent necessity exists for the
   discharge of any such Volunteer before the
   expiration of the said Month's notice, he may
   give him his discharge accordingly.

3. Every Volunteer shall attend to be
   trained and exercised at such time and places
   as shall be appointed by notice in any Gazette
   or Newspaper, or by verbal order issued by or
   by the authority of the Officer Commanding
   the body of Volunteers to which he may
   belong: Provided always that no Volunteer
   shall be compelled to attend more than One
   hundred and sixty eight hours in any one
   year.

4. No Volunteer shall be absent during any
   part of any time appointed for training and
   exercise; and every Volunteer who shall offend
   against this Regulation shall for such offence
   forfeit and pay any such sum not exceeding
   One Pound, as shall be fixed by the Officer
   Commanding, as aforesaid, which sum so fixed
   shall be recoverable in a summary way by any
   Officer of the body of Voluuteers to which the
   offending may belong.

5. No Volunteer who shall, previous to the
   issue of a Summons under the foregoing
   Regulations, produce to such Officer Com-
   manding as aforesaid a Certificate signed by a
   duly qualified Medical Practitioner, that such
   absence was unavoidably caused by illness, or
   satisfy the Commanding Officer of his illness,
   and no Volunteer who shall be absent, having
   duly obtained leave of absence from such
   Officer Commanding as aforesaid, shall be liable
   to the penalty set forth in the foregoing
   Regulation.

6. If any Volunteer's Arms or Accoutrements
   shall, in the opinion of the Officer Commanding
   as aforesaid, be in a defective or dirty state, he
   shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding
   two shillings and sixpence, to be fixed and
   recoverable in manner as aforesaid.

7. If any Arms, Accoutrements, or other
   Government property shall be lost, destroyed,
   or injured in any way other than on service, a
   fine not exceeding the value of the Arms,
   Accoutrements, or other Government property
   shall be paid by the Volunteer in whose charg
   they were. Such fine shall be fixed by a
   Board of Officers appointed for that purpose
   by the Officer Commanding as aforesaid upon
   consideration of the circumstances, and if not
   paid to them on demand, may be recovered by
   the Officer Commanding as aforesaid, on
   behalf of the Government, in any Resident
   Magistrate's Court in the Colony.

8. If any Volunteer shall not deliver to the
   Officer Commanding as aforesaid, the Arms,
   Accoutrements, and other Government pro-
   perty entrusted to him as a Volunteer, within
   three days after an order to that effect shall
   have been given to him by the Officer Com-
   manding as aforesaid, he shall be liable to a
   penalty of Ten Pounds, to be recovered in a
   summary way.

9. All Commissioned Officers shall be ap-
   pointed by the Governor, and names for that
   purpose shall be submitted to him (through
   the Officer Commanding as aforesaid, for his
   approval,) by the Troop or Company to which
   they are proposed to be appointed. No Com-
   missions will be issued (unless to Officers who
   have held Commissions in the regular service)
   until the Candidates are found fit after ex-
   amination.

10. All Non-commissioned Officers shall be
    elected by the Volunteers of the Troop or
    Company to which they are to be appointed,
    and shall be examined by the Senior Officer of
    such Troop or Company, and if passed as
    competent, shall be appointed by the Officer
    Commanding as aforesaid.

11. All Volunteers shall be subject to the
    provisions contained in the following Sections
    of the "Militia Act, 1858," viz. :-1, 3, 5, 6,
    7, 9, 18, 19, 20, 22, and 21, and in the fol-