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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

PROCLAMATION
Bringing into operation "The Debtors and
Creditors Act, 1862."

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE
GREY, Knight Commander of the
Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Command
er-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zea-
land, and its Dependencies, and
Vice-Admiral of the same, &c.,
&c., &c.

WHEREAS it is provided by "The
Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862," that
the said Act shall not come into operation
until a day to be fixed by the Governor by
Proclamation, to be published in the Govern-
ment Gazette, and it is expedient that the
said Act shall come into operation as herein-
after mentioned: Now, therefore, I, Sir
George Grey, the Governor as aforesaid of the
said Colony, do hereby proclaim and declare
that the said "Debtors and Creditors Act,
1862," shall be in operation in the said Colony
from and after the first day of June next
ensuing.

Given under my hand, at New
Plymouth, in the Province of
Taranaki, and issued under
the Public Seal of the said
Colony, this second day of
May, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
G. GREY.

By His Excellency's command,
ALFRED DOMETT.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At a Council held at New Ply-
mouth on the 2nd day of
May, 1863.

Present:
G. GREY.

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
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, there-
fore, His Excellency the Governor, 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 which the
services of Volunteers shall be henceforth
accepted in any Militia District within the
Province of Auckland.

1. Nothing contained in these Regulations
   shall affect any Volunteer whose services
   have been accepted under the regulations
   made on the Sixteenth day of January One
   thousand eight hundred and sixty-two,
   unless and until his services shall be offered
   and accepted under these regulations.

2. Any person desirous of becoming a
   Volunteer shall be proposed at a parade or
   meeting of the Company which he desires to
   join, and shall subject to the approval of the
   Governor, be admitted a Volunteer on the
   vote of the majority then present of the
   company.

3. 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 Three months' notice in
   writing given by him to the Officer Com-
   manding the body of Volunteers to which
   he may belong of his own desire to be so
   discharged; and, in case such Officer Com-
   manding shall be satisfied that urgent
   necessity exists for the discharge of any such
   Volunteer before the expiration of the said
   notice, he may discharge him accordingly.

4. Each company of Foot shall consist of
   not more than Eighty non-commissioned
   officers and men, and each troop of horse
   of not more than fifty.

5. A suitable uniform will be issued by
   Government to each Rifle Volunteer free of
   cost; but the property in such uniform shall
   remain in the Government.

6. The financial affairs of a Battalion shall
   be managed by a committee composed of an
   officer, non-commissioned officer and private
   elected by and from each company: the
   Treasurer and Secretary to be appointed by
   such committee from themselves: the Com-
   manding Officer to be ex officio the President
   and the Adjutant a member ex officio of
   such Committee.

7. Every Volunteer shall attend to be
   trained and exercised at such times and
   places as shall be appointed by notice in
   any Gazette or Newspaper issued by or by
   the authority of the Officer Commanding the
   body of Volunteers to which he may belong;
   or by verbal order issued immediately to any
   Volunteer or at any parade by or by the
   authority of such Officer Commanding.

8. 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.

9. No Volunteer who shall, previous to
   the issue of a summons to levy a fine under
   the foregoing Regulations, produce to such
   Officer Commanding as aforesaid a Certi-
   ficate signed by a duly qualified Medical
   Practitioner that such absence was unavoid-
   ably caused by illness, or satisfy the Com-
   manding Officer of his illness, and no volun-