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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Admiral of the United Kingdom or the Com-
missioners for executing the office of Lord High
Admiral.

Power for Colonies to provide Vessels and raise Men and
commission Officers, &c.

3. In any Colony it shall be lawful for the proper
   Legislative authority, with the approval of Her
   Majesty in Council, from time to time to make pro-
   vision for effecting at the expense of the Colony all
   or any of the purposes following:
   (1.) For providing, maintaining, and using a vessel
   or vessels of war, subject to such conditions
   and for such purposes as Her Majesty in
   Council from time to time approves:
   (2.) For raising and maintaining Seamen and
   others entered on the terms of being bound to
   serve as ordered in any such vessel:
   (3.) For raising and maintaining a body of Volun-
   teers entered on the terms of being bound
   to general service in the Royal Navy in
   emergency, and, if in any case the proper
   Legislative authority so directs, on the further
   terms of being bound to serve as ordered in
   any such vessel as aforesaid:
   (4.) For appointing commissioned, warrant, and
   other officers to train and command or serve
   as officers with any such men ashore or afloat,
   on such terms and subject to such regulations
   as Her Majesty in Council from time to time
   approves:
   (5.) For obtaining from the Admiralty the services
   of commissioned, warrant and other officers
   and of men of the Royal Navy for the last-
   mentioned purposes:
   (6.) For enforcing good order and discipline among
   the men and officers aforesaid while ashore or
   afloat within the limits of the Colony:
   (7.) For making the men and officers aforesaid,
   while ashore or afloat within the limits of the
   Colony or elsewhere, subject to all enactments
   and regulations for the time being in force
   for the discipline of the Royal Navy.

Volunteers to form part of Royal Naval Reserve.
4. Volunteers raised as aforesaid in any Colony
shall form part of the Royal Naval Reserve, in addition
to the Volunteers who may be raised under the Act
of 1859, but, except as in this Act expressly provided,
shall be subject exclusively to the provisions made as
aforesaid by the proper Legislative authority of the
Colony.

Power to Admiralty to issue Special Commissions.
5. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council
from time to time as occasion requires, and on such
conditions as seem fit, to authorize the Admiralty to
issue to any officer of the Royal Navy volunteering
for the purpose a special commission for service in
accordance with the provisions of this Act.

Placing of Colonial Vessel, with Men and Officers, at Her
Majesty's disposal.
6. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council
from time to time as occasion requires, and on such
conditions as seem fit, to authorize the Admiralty to
accept any offer for the time being made or to be
made by the Government of a Colony, to place at
Her Majesty's disposal any vessel of war provided
by that Government and the men and officers from
time to time serving therein; and while any vessel
accepted by the Admiralty under such authority is
at the disposal of Her Majesty, such vessel shall be
deemed to all intents a vessel of war of the Royal
Navy, and the men and officers from time to time
serving in such vessel shall be deemed to all intents
men and officers of the Royal Navy, and shall ac-
cordingly be subject to all enactments and regulations
for the time being in force for the discipline of the
Royal Navy.

As to services of Volunteers and Officers in Navy.
7. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council
from time to time as occasion requires, and on such
conditions as seem fit, to authorize the Admiralty to
accept any offer for the time being made or to be
made by the Government of a Colony, to place at
Her Majesty's disposal for general service in the
Royal Navy the whole or any part of the body of
Volunteers with all or any of the officers raised and
appointed by that Government in accordance with
the provisions of this Act; and when any such offer
is accepted such of the provisions of the Act of 1859
as relate to men of the Royal Naval Reserve raised in
the United Kingdom when in actual service shall
extend and apply to the Volunteers whose services
are so accepted.

Delegation of Admiralty powers to Naval Officer.
8. The Admiralty may, if they think fit, from time
to time by warrant authorize any officer of Her
Majesty's Navy of the rank of captain or of a higher
rank to exercise, in the name and on behalf of the
Admiralty, in relation to any Colony, for such time
and subject to such limitations, if any, as the
Admiralty think fit, any power exerciseable by the
Admiralty under this Act.

Not to impose charge on Imperial Revenues, &c.
9. Nothing done under this Act by Order in
Council, or by the Admiralty, or otherwise, shall im-
pose any charge on the revenues of the United
Kingdom without express provision made by Parlia-
ment for meeting the same.

Not to affect powers vested in Colonies.
10. Nothing in this Act shall take away or abridge
any power vested in or exerciseable by the Legislature
or Government of any Colony.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th September, 1865.

THE following Notice, forwarded by the Right
Honorable the Secretary of State for the
Colonies, respecting instructions prohibiting persons
from entering the United States without Passports,
is published for general information.

J. C. RICHMOND.

Office of the A. A. Provost-Marshal-General and
Military Commander,
Boston, April 17, 1865.

To carry out the instructions of the President,
prohibiting travellers from entering the United States
from foreign countries by sea, without Passports, and
the instructions of the State and War Departments
to the same end: masters and owners of steamers
and passenger vessels are notified that no vessels will
be allowed to discharge hereafter, bringing passengers
without Passports duly viséd. This does not apply
to ordinary emigrants.

The masters of such steamers and passenger vessels
must themselves see that all their passengers
embarking at a foreign port for this country, are
furnished with Passports duly viséd, on penalty of
detention both of passengers and cargo on arrival.

F. N. CLARKE,
Major 5th Artillery, U.S, A., A.A. Provost-Marshal-
General and Military Commander.

Delegation of powers under "The Diseased Cattle Act,
1861," to Superintendent of Otago.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th August, 1865.

HIS Excellency the Governor, with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council, has been
pleased to delegate, under "The Diseased Cattle,
Act, 1861," to the Superintendent of the Province of
Otago, the several powers vested in the Governor by