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5. The amount of pension recommended to be
   granted by the Commissioners, shall not exceed the
   rates fixed by this Regulation. In special cases, how-
   ever, of men whose disabilities shall have increased
   subsequently to their leaving the service, the Com-
   missioners may reconsider such cases, if any peculiar
   circumstances justifying such a proceeding shall
   occur, and be brought forward within two years after
   the original grant of pension was made.

6. Permanent pensions shall be granted to men
   discharged in consequence of being rendered incapable
   of further service by wounds or injuries received in
   action according to the following scales :-

| RANK. | FIRST DEGREE. | SECOND
DEGREE. | THIRD DEGREE. |
|---|---|---|---|
| | Men losing two limbs or
both eyes from wounds,
or being so severely
wounded as to be totally
incapable of earning a
livelihood, and to re-
quire the assistance and
care of some other person | Men rendered incapable
by wounds of earning a
livelihood, but not re-
quiring the aid of an-
other person | Men able to contribute
towards earning a liveli-
hood, although rendered
by wounds unfit for the
ordinary duties of a sol-
dier |
| | FROM | TO | FROM | TO | FROM | TO |
| | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. |
| Sergeant | 2 6 | 4 0 | 3 0 | 1 3 | 2 8 |
| | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem |
| Corporal | 1 10 | 3 4 | 2 6 | 1 0 | 2 3 |
| | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem |
| Private - | 1 6 | 3 0 | 2 2 | 0 8 | 2 0 |
| | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem |

7. In cases of severe suffering from wounds re-
   ceived by non-commissioned officers or soldiers, who
   have behaved gallantly in the field, a sum not exceed-
   ing sixpence a day may be granted, at the recom-
   mendation of the Commander of the Colonial Forces,
   by the Commissioners, with the consent of the
   Government, as a bounty, in addition to the pension
   which may have been awarded by the said Com-
   missioners.

8. The temporary pensions which may have been
   awarded by the Commissioners to men discharged as
   unfit for the ordinary duty of a soldier, on account
   of disabilities contracted in and by the service, may,
   under extraordinary circumstances of extreme suffer-
   ing, or of permanent incapacity to earn a sufficient
   livelihood, be made permanent, on the recommenda-
   tion of the Commissioners by the Government.

9. Men discharged on account of their being unfit
   for the ordinary duties of a soldier, in consequence
   of disability contracted in and by the service, may be
   allowed temporary pensions, according to the fol-
   lowing scale, viz. :-

| RANK. | FIRST
DEGREE. | SECOND
DEGREE. | THIRD DEGREE. |
|---|---|---|---|
| | Men totally incapable
of earning a liveli-
hood, and who re-
quire the assistance
and care of some
other person. | Men rendered incapable
of earning a livelihood,
but not requiring the
aid of another person. | Men able to contribute
towards earning a
livelihood, although
rendered unfit for the
ordinary duties of a
soldier. |
| | FROM | TO | FROM | TO | FROM | TO |
| | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. | s. d. |
| Sergeant | 2 0 | 3 6 | 2 6 | 1 0 | 2 6 |
| | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem |
| Corporal | 1 4 | 3 0 | 2 3 | 1 0 | 2 0 |
| | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem |
| Private - | 1 0 | 2 6 | 2 0 | 0 8 | 2 0 |
| | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem | diem |

10. In severe cases of disability or injury, result-
    ing entirely from military duty, the temporary pension
    may be renewed by the Government, for such further
    period as the special circumstances of the case may,
    in their judgment warrant.

11. In special cases, where it may be considered
    more advantageous to the soldier's interests that a
    gratuity in money proportioned to the length of his
    services, and the duration of the temporary pension
    awarded, should be given instead of the temporary
    pension, a sum, varying from £1 to £50, may be
    recommended to be allowed by the Commissioners, if
    the soldier appear personally before them, or by the
    Government if the soldier be discharged without
    being examined personally by the Commissioners;
    but in every instance the gratuity shall be paid to
    the soldier only after his arrival at the place of his
    intended future residence.

12. In no case shall a soldier be pensioned for
    disability until his case shall have been reported upon
    by some other medical authority than the medical
    officers of the regiment to which he belongs.

13. Immediately after each Board, a Return shall
    be forwarded by the Commissioners to the Govern-
    ment for approval, shewing in detail the pensions
    which have been recommended to be granted, and the
    claims which have been refused at the Board. The
    Government, on receiving the Return, shall make
    such communications on the subject to the Command-
    ing Officers of the Regiments from which the men
    shall have been discharged as the Government shall
    think fit.

14. No non-commissioned officer shall, on his dis-
    charge, have any claim to the allowance or pensions
    awarded to a corporal or sergeant, except for con-
    tinuous service immediately preceding his discharge,
    in the rank he held when discharged.

15. The period during which any soldier may have
    been employed as an acting lance sergeant or cor-
    poral, shall not be allowed to reckon as non-com-
    missioned officer's service.

16. Any pensioner who neglects to draw his
    pension for four successive quarters, shall be struck
    off the Pension List, and shall not be replaced unless
    he shall satisfactorily account for such omission; and
    the Government shall, at their discretion, grant or
    withhold the arrears, or any portion thereof.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

G. GREY, Governor.

At the Government House, at Auckland, the
17th day of November, 1864.

Present:-

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by certain Acts of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
respectively "The Native Districts Regulation Act,
1858," and "The Native Circuit Courts Act, 1858,"
it is provided that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to
appoint Districts for the purposes of the said
Act, being Districts over which the Native Title
shall not for the time being have been extin-
guished, and any such appointment to vary and
revoke:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor,
by and with the advice and consent of his
Executive Council, doth hereby revoke the Orders
in Council, bearing date respectively the seventh day
of March 1862, appointing the District of the Bay of
Plenty, and the Hundreds of Rotorua and Tauranga
for the purposes of the said Acts respectively.