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private for each month or portion of month (being
not less than fourteen days) during which he may be
required to serve.

3. If rations are supplied to the wives and families
   of the men, the cost of the same will be charged
   against the husband or father.

4. In districts where the Militia are called out for
   "actual service," Militiamen may be ordered to
   attend parades (not exceeding two hours each) for
   when they will receive one shilling and sixpence
   for each attendance of not less than one hour and a
   half.

In districts where the Militia are called out for
"training and exercise," Militiamen may be ordered
to attend parades (not exceeding two hours each)
once or twice a month with their companies, sub-
divisions, or sections, when they will receive one
shilling and sixpence for each attendance of not less
than one hour and a half, provided they have received
no free issue of clothing from the Government.
Officers of Militia will not receive pay for attendance
at these parades.

5. If called out for training for any number of con-
   secutive days, the officers and men will receive the
   rates of pay hereunder specified, but their whole
   time must be devoted to their duties.

6. If an officer of the permanent Staff shall, on
   inspection, deem any Militiaman to be efficient in
   drill, he may issue a certificate of efficiency to such
   Militiaman, who will then only be required to attend
   parades once in three months for inspection of arms
   and accoutrements, when he will receive the same
   rate of pay as specified in clause 4.

7. The rates of pay per day when on actual duty
   are as follows :-

Lieutenant-Colonel, 23s., with forage for two (2)
horses, and rations.
Major, 19s., with forage for one (1) horse, and
rations.
Surgeon, 18s., with forage for one (1) horse, and
rations.
Assistant-Surgeon, 13s., and rations.
Captain, 14s. 7d. and rations.
Adjutant, 3s. 6d., in addition to pay of rank and
forage for one (1) horse.
Quartermaster, 12s. 6d., and rations.
Lieutenant, 9s. 6d., and rations.
Cornet or Ensign, 8s. 3d., and rations.
Staff Sergeants, 5s., and rations.
Sergeants, 3s. 6d., and rations.
Corporals, 3s., and rations.
Trumpeters or Buglers, 2s. 6d., and rations.
Privates, 2s. 6d., and rations.

Form of Certificate of Exemption.

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I certify that I have examined ........................................ and find him sufficiently
of efficient in his knowledge of drill to be exempted from all
instruction parades, and he is required only to attend with his
Company once a quarter, on such days as may be named by the
Officer Commanding the District.

Approved. ........................................................Adjutant.

................................................Commanding District.

N.B. This certificate will not relieve a Militiaman from
being called upon for actual service.

W. GISBORNE,
Presiding.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
tenth day of January, 1871.

Present:

THE HONORABLE WILLIAM GISBORNE, COLONIAL
SECRETARY, PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS OF THE
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Patents Act, 1870," it is
enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to make such
Rules and Regulations, not inconsistent with the
provisions thereof, as may appear to be necessary and
expedient for the purposes of the said Act:

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the Colony of New Zealand, and in exercise
and pursuance of the above recited power and
authority, doth hereby make the following Rules and
Regulations for the purposes of the said Act:-

1. Every application for Letters Patent, and every
   title of invention and specification, must be limited to
   one invention only; and no patent will be allowed
   where the specification or title embraces more than
   one invention.

2. The title of the invention must point out dis-
   tinctly and specifically the nature and object of the
   invention.

3. Every specification, after describing the details
   of the invention with precision, must contain a
   distinct claim for the especial novelty thereof.

4. All specifications and copies left at the Colonial
   Secretary's Office, or afterwards required or allowed
   to be deposited by the Patent Officer, must be written
   in a large, legible hand, and every such specification
   as aforesaid shall be in the form contained in the First
   Schedule to "The Patents Act, 1870," or to the like
   effect, and shall be written upon both sides of one or
   more skin or skins of parchment, and every page
   thereof shall be of the exact size of twenty inches in
   length by fifteen inches in breadth, leaving a margin
   of at least one inch and a half on each side of every
   such page, in order and to the intent that the same
   may be bound into books for safe custody; but the
   drawings accompanying such specification (if any)
   may be made upon larger sheets of parchment, leaving
   a margin of the size and for the purpose aforesaid;
   and every copy of any such specification, and of the
   drawings accompanying the same (if any), as afore-
   said, shall in like manner be written upon one or
   more sheet or sheets of paper of the size and with
   the margins aforesaid.

5. The notice of an intention to proceed with an
   application for Letters Patent must be delivered at
   the office of the Patent Officer at least six weeks
   before the expiration of the period of protection.

6. When in any case the Patent Officer deems it
   expedient to require security for costs, he may make
   an order that the applicant or his agent, or the
   objector or his agent, shall deposit before the hearing
   any sum not exceeding £25, to meet any order for
   the remuneration of persons called to the aid of such
   Patent Officer, or for the costs of the hearing.

7. When an applicant is desirous of submitting an
   amended specification or drawings for the allowance
   of the Patent Officer, such amended specification or
   drawings must be left at the office of the Patent
   Officer at least five days preceding the day of
   hearing.

8. Notwithstanding the delivery of the warrant at
   the office of the Colonial Secretary, no patent shall
   be prepared until application in writing shall have
   been made by the applicant or his agent for the
   preparation of the Letters Patent, and until the fee