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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

14. Applications from persons desirous to
    be admitted as candidates are to be addressed
    to the Secretary to the Civil Service Com-
    missioners, Dean's Yard, London, S.W.

NOTE. (1.) All persons appointed to the Civil
Service will be required to attend at the
India Office, to make the necessary arrange-
ments for entering into covenant, and for
giving a bond for 1,000l., jointly with two
sureties, for the due fulfilment of the same.
The stamps payable by civilians on their
appointment amount to 3l. 10s.

(2.) The Secretary of State for India in
Council has authorized the Civil Service
Commissioners to state that, with the view of
meeting the expenses to be incurred by selected
candidates during the interval which must
elapse before they can proceed to India, it is
his intention to allow the sum of 100l. to each
selected candidate who shall have passed the
Further Examination in 1865 to the satis-
faction of the Commissioners, and shall have
complied with such rules as may be laid down
for the guidance of selected candidates.

(3.) Candidates are at liberty to send in
their names and evidence of age as soon as
they think fit to do so; but evidence of health
and character must bear date not earlier
than the 1st March, 1864.

(4.) Candidates rejected at the Further
Examination of 1865 will in no case be
allowed to present themselves for re-examina-
tion in 1866.

Downing Street,
20th January, 1864.

Sir, Applications having been frequently
received from British Subjects resident in
the Colonies for permission to accept and
wear Orders or Decorations conferred on
them by Foreign Governments, I have thought
it desirable, in order to assist Governors of
Colonies in dealing with such requests in
future, to place them in possession of the
Queen's Regulations on the subject. I ac-
cordingly enclose a copy of them for your
information and guidance.

I have, &c.,
NEWCASTLE.

Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B.
&c., &c., &c.

THE Queen has been pleased to direct that
the following Regulations respecting
Foreign Orders and Medal shall be sub-
stituted for those now in force:—

Regulations respecting Foreign Orders.

1. No Subject of Her Majesty shall accept
   a Foreign Order from the Sovereign of any
   foreign country, or wear the Insignia there-
   of, without having previously obtained Her
   Majesty's permission to that effect, signified
   by a warrant under her Royal Sign-Manual.

2. Such permission shall not be granted to
   any subject of Her Majesty, unless the
   Foreign Order shall have been conferred in
   consequence of active and distinguished
   Service before the enemy, either at Sea or in
   the field; or unless he shall have been
   actually and entirely employed, beyond Her

Majesty's dominions, in the service of the
Foreign Sovereign by whom the Order is
conferred.

3. The intention of a Foreign Sovereign to
   confer upon a British Subject the Insignia of
   an Order must be notified to Her Majesty's
   Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
   Affairs, either through the British Minister
   accredited at the Court of such Foreign
   Sovereign, or through his Minister accre-
   dited at the Court of Her Majesty.

4. If the service for which it is proposed
   to confer the Order has been performed
   during War, the Notification required by
   the preceding Clause must be made not later
   than two years after the exchange of the
   Ratifications of a Treaty of Peace.

If the service has been performed in time
of Peace, the Notification must be made
within two years after the date of such
service.

5. After such Notification shall have been
   received, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary
   of State for Foreign Affairs shall, if the case
   comes within the conditions prescribed by
   the present Regulations, and arises from
   Naval or Military Services before the enemy,
   refer it to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary
   of State for the War Department, previously
   to taking Her Majesty's pleasure thereupon,
   in order to ascertain whether there be any
   objection to Her Majesty's permission being
   granted.

A similar reference shall also be made to
the Commander-in-Chief if the application
relates to an Officer in the Army, or to the
Lords of the Admiralty, if it relates to an
Officer in the Navy.

6. When Her Majesty's Principal Secre-
   tary of State for Foreign Affairs shall have
   taken the Queen's pleasure on any such
   application, and shall have obtained Her
   Majesty's permission for the person in whose
   favour it has been made to accept the Foreign
   Order, and wear the Insignia thereof, he
   shall signify the same to Her Majesty's
   Principal Secretary of State for the Home
   Department, in order that he may cause the
   warrant required by Clause 1 to be prepared
   for the Royal Sign-Manual.

When such Warrant shall have been
signed by the Queen, a Notification thereof
shall be inserted in the "Gazette," stating
the service for which the Foreign Order has
been conferred.

7. The Warrant signifying Her Majesty's
   permission may, at the request and at the
   expense of the person who has obtained it,
   be registered in the College of Arms.

8. Every such Warrant as aforesaid shall
   contain a Clause providing that Her Ma-
   jesty's licence and permission does not
   authorize the assumption of any style,
   appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege
   appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of Her
   Majesty's Realms.

9. When a British Subject has received
   the Royal permission to accept a Foreign
   Order, he will at any future time be allowed