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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1873.

The Imperial Act for the Punishment of Mutiny has
been received by the Governor.

(L.S.) G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Militia Act, 1870," it is
enacted that during the time that any part of
the Militia shall be on actual service, all things con-
tained in any Act of the Imperial Parliament which
shall then be in force in New Zealand for punishing
mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of
the Army and their quarters, and in the Articles of
War made in pursuance of such Act, shall apply to
and the powers thereby created shall be exercised by
such part of the Militia in all cases not otherwise
provided for in "The Militia Act, 1870," or in any
regulations that may from time to time be issued
under its authority: Provided that no Militiaman
shall be liable to any corporal punishment except
death or imprisonment for any offence against any
such Act of the Imperial Parliament or Articles:
Provided also that no such Act of the Imperial
Parliament or Articles of War shall be deemed to be
in force in New Zealand until a Proclamation shall
have been published in the New Zealand Gazette,
stating that the Governor has received a copy thereof:
And whereas by the one hundred and second
section of the Act of the Imperial Parliament,
intituled "An Act for Punishing Mutiny and
Desertion, and for the better Payment of the
Army and their Quarters," made and passed in
the thirty-fourth year of the reign of Her present
Majesty Queen Victoria, it is enacted that the same
shall be and continue in force in certain parts of Her
Majesty's dominions at and from such times as in the
said section mentioned, and in all other parts of Her
Majesty's dominions, including New Zealand, from
the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three inclusive, until the first day of
February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-

four: Provided always that the same shall, from and
after the receipt and promulgation thereof in General
Orders in any part of Her Majesty's dominions or
elsewhere beyond the seas, become and be in full
force, anything therein stated to the contrary not-
withstanding:

And whereas New Zealand is not expressly men-
tioned in the said section of the said Act of the Im-
perial Parliament:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and
with the advice and consent of the Executive Council
of New Zealand, and in pursuance of the require-
ments of "The Militia Act, 1870," aforesaid, and in
exercise of the powers thereby vested in me, do
hereby proclaim and declare that a copy of the said
hereinbefore in part recited Act of the Imperial
Parliament, together with and accompanied by a
copy of "Rules and Articles for the better Govern-
ment of Her Majesty's Army," from the twenty-fifth
day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one, made and passed under the authority of
the said Act, has been received by me in the Colony
aforesaid.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of
Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Seal of the
said Colony, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of February, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three.

G. M. WATERHOUSE.

Approved in Council.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!