APRIL 29.]

(b.) Military law:
(c.) The elements of tactics:
(d.) Field fortification, and the elements of per-
manent fortification:
(e.) Military topography, and reconnaissance:
(f) Infantry and field artillery drill, riding, and
gymnastics.

VII. EXAMINATIONS FOR COMMISSIONS.

50. At the end of the course the cadets will be
    required to pass an examination in the field and on
    paper, and those who pass a satisfactory examination
    will, as provided in the Royal Warrant of 30th
    October, 1876 (clause 161, Army Circulars, 1876),
    become entitled to commissions in the army as second
    lieutenants, and will be gazetted to regiments in the
    order in which they pass.

51. Marks will be allotted to the obligatory subjects
    in the following proportions:—
    Queen's regulations, &c. ... $1\frac{1}{2}$
    Military law ... ... ... 2
    Elements of tactics ... ... ... 3
    Fortification ... ... ... 3
    Military topography and reconnaissance 3
    Drill, gymnastics, and riding (one each) 3

52. In tactics, fortification, and military topo-
    graphy and reconnaissance, one-fourth of the marks
    will be reserved for notes and drawings done during
    the course.

53. The standard of qualification for a commission
    will be decided upon from time to time by the
    Secretary of State for War, and announced to the
    cadets at the commencement of the course.

54. In order to insure due diligence during the
    whole period of residence, there will, at the end of
    the first term, be a probationary examination in the
    work of that term. A cadet failing to pass satis-
    factorily through the probationary examination at
    the end of his first term will lose a term and not get
    class promotion. No cadet will be permitted to
    reside for more than one year at the College, except
    in cases of failure at the probationary examination,
    protracted illness, or long absence from any unavoid-
    able cause, or of his being prevented by unavoidable
    cause from undergoing the final examination. In
    these cases an extra term will, if specially recom-
    mended by the Governor, be allowed.

VIII. INTERIOR ECONOMY, MESSING, ETC.

55. The dining-halls, halls of study, reading and
    recreation-rooms, and quarters of the cadets will be
    furnished in all essentials by the Government.

IX. GENERAL REGULATIONS.

56. A cadet will be removed from the Royal
    Military College for moral or physical unfitness.

57. A cadet who fails to pass his examination at
    the end of his second term of residence will not be
    permitted to return to the Royal Military College,
    but will be allowed to be re-examined once at the
    next ensuing examination.

58. A failure at this re-examination will disqualify
    a cadet for a commission in the army, and his name
    will be at once removed from the list.

59. No person whatever belonging to the Royal
    Military College is to receive a present from any
    cadet, or from the relations or friends of any cadet.

The following General Order (69 of 1877) modifies
paragraphs 13 to 17 of the regulations issued with
General Order 88 of 1876:—

G.O. 69. EXAMINATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE.

I. After the examination in July, 1878, the "pre-
liminary" will be separated from the "further" or

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competitive portion of the examination for admission
to the Royal Military College.

II. Special preliminary examinations will be held
in the spring and autumn of each year by the Civil
Service Commissioners, to whom intending candidates
should apply.

III. The further examinations will be held half-
yearly, in the months of July and December, as at
present; and candidates for those examinations are
to apply to the Military Secretary, as prescribed by
existing regulations.

IV. No candidate will be allowed to attend the
"further" until he has passed the "preliminary"
examination, or can produce a certificate as laid down
in paragraph V.

V. Candidates will be exempted from the "pre-
liminary" examination in all subjects except geo-
metrical drawing, if they can produce the certificate
of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination
Board, provided it embraces mathematics. If it does
not include that subject, they will be required also to
undergo an examination therein.

NOTE.—Paragraph V. of the above General Order comes
into operation at once, but the other paragraphs will not apply
until after July, 1878.

(Circular.) Downing Street,
1st December, 1879.

SIR,—I have the honor to transmit to you, for your
information, and for that of your Government, the
accompanying copy of the Territorial Waters Juris-
diction Act, passed by the Imperial Parliament in
1878 (41 and 42 Vict., c. 73).

I have, &c.,
M. E. HICKS BEACH.

The Officer Administering the Government
of New Zealand.

AN ACT to regulate the Law relating to the Trial of
Offences committed on the Sea within a certain
distance of the Coasts of Her Majesty's Dominions.
[16th August, 1878.]

WHEREAS the rightful jurisdiction of Her Majesty,
her heirs and successors, extends and has always
extended over the open seas adjacent to the coasts of
the United Kingdom and of all other parts of Her
Majesty's dominions to such a distance as is necessary
for the defence and security of such dominions:

And whereas it is expedient that all offences com-
mitted on the open sea within a certain distance of
the coasts of the United Kingdom and of all other
parts of Her Majesty's dominions, by whomsoever
committed, should be dealt with according to law:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's 'Most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as "The Territorial Waters
   Jurisdiction Act, 1878."

2. An offence committed by a person, whether he
   is or is not a subject of Her Majesty, on the open
   sea within the territorial waters of Her Majesty's
   dominions, is an offence within the jurisdiction of the
   Admiral, although it may have been committed on
   board or by means of a foreign ship, and the person
   who committed such offence may be arrested, tried,
   and punished accordingly.

3. Proceedings for the trial and punishment of a
   person who is not a subject of Her Majesty, and who
   is charged with any such offence as is declared by
   this Act to be within the jurisdiction of the Admiral,
   shall not be instituted in any Court of the United
   Kingdom, except with the consent of one of Her
   Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and on his
   certificate that the institution of such proceedings is