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Regiment or Battalion of Militia of the District in which Volunteers are serving shall ex officio act as Adjutant and Sergeant of the Volunteers, and all Sergeants and Corporals must be examined and passed as competent by the Adjutant before they will be appointed.

6. All rolls, documents, and correspondence shall be kept at the office of the Adjutant, and shall be open at all times during office hours for the inspection and information of the Officers of the Company to which they relate.

7. All orders and communications from the Governor, or Government of the Colony, shall be given out by the Adjutant.

8. If any arms, accoutrements, or other Government property shall be injured or destroyed by being used except on service, a fine, not exceeding the value of the arms, accoutrements, or other property, shall be paid by the Volunteer in whose charge they were; such fine to be fixed by the Adjutant and the Captain of the Company, upon consideration of the circumstances, and if not paid to the Adjutant on demand, may be recovered by him on behalf of the Government in any Resident Magistrate\'s Court in the Colony.

9. Volunteers enrolled under these Regulations shall be subject to the provisions contained in the following sections of the "Militia Act, 1858," namely, sections 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 18, 19, 20, 21 (except the proviso thereto), 22, and 24; and of sections Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, of the "Militia Act Amendment Act, 1860."

F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.

Order in Council making Regulations under which the services of Volunteers shall be accepted in the Invercargill District.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE AT AUCKLAND,
This 29th day of December.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Militia Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make, vary, and abolish Regulations under which the services of Volunteers shall be accepted in any Militia District: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony, and in exercise of the powers in this behalf vested in him by the said recited Act, doth hereby make and ordain the following Regulations, under which the services of Volunteers shall be accepted in the District of Invercargill.

REGULATIONS.

1. The term of service for each Volunteer to be one year from the day his services are, or in the case of Volunteers already enrolled were, accepted: Provided always that if any Volunteer shall go to reside out of the District, he shall, if he desire, be discharged from further service as a Volunteer.

2. Every Volunteer shall attend to be trained and exercised at such times as shall be appointed by the Governor, or by such person or persons as he may from time to time

authorise in that behalf: Provided always that no Volunteer shall be compelled to attend more than one hundred and sixty-eight hours in any one year.

3. Every Volunteer who shall absent himself during any part of the time appointed for training or exercise, and shall not account for such absence to the satisfaction of the Adjutant and the Captain of his Company, shall forfeit and pay any sum exceeding one pound for every day on which he shall be so absent, to be recovered in a summary way.

4. All Officers of Companies will be appointed by the Governor, and names for that purpose are to be submitted to him for his approval, by the Company to which they are proposed to be appointed.

5. The Adjutant and Staff Sergeant of the Regiment or Battalion of Militia of the District in which Volunteers are serving shall ex officio act as Adjutant and Sergeant of the Volunteers, and all Sergeants and Corporals must be examined and passed as competent by the Adjutant before they will be appointed.

6. All rolls, documents, and correspondence shall be kept at the office of the Adjutant, and shall be open at all times during office hours for the inspection and information of the Officers of the Company to which they relate.

7. All orders and communications from the Governor, or Government of the Colony, shall be given out by the Adjutant.

8. If any arms, accoutrements, or other Government property shall be injured or destroyed by being used except on service, a fine, not exceeding the value of the arms, accoutrements, or other property, shall be paid by the Volunteer in whose charge they were; such fine to be fixed by the Adjutant and the Captain of the Company, upon consideration of the circumstances, and if not paid to the Adjutant on demand, may be recovered by him on behalf of the Government in any Resident Magistrate\'s Court in the Colony.

9. Volunteers enrolled under these Regulations shall be subject to the provisions contained in the following sections of the "Militia Act, 1858," namely, sections 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 18, 19, 20, 21 (except the proviso thereto), 22, and 24; and of sections Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, of the "Militia Act Amendment Act, 1860."

F. G. STEWARD,
Clerk of Executive Council.

Warrant giving effect to the "Foreign Seamen\'s Act 1860," in respect of Ships of the United States of America.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me in that behalf by the "Foreign Seamen\'s Act, 1860," I, the Governor of New Zealand, do hereby notify that from and after the 1st day of February next, the provisions of the above-mentioned Act will be enforced in respect of the Masters and Crews of ships belonging to the United States of America.

Given under my hand at Government House, at Auckland, this 3rd day of January 1861.

T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency\'s command,
E. W. STAFFORD.