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command of all Officers in the Militia and
Volunteer Militia.

2. Officers in Her Majesty's Regular
   Forces of each grade below that of Colonel
   will take rank and precedence of Officers
   of equal degree in the Militia and Volunteer
   Militia.

3. All commands in the Militia and Vo-
   lunteer Militia belong to the eldest Officer,
   whether of Cavalry, Artillery, or Infantry,
   and all Officers in the Militia and Volunteer
   Militia of each degree, will take rank and
   precedence together as one Service ac-
   cording to the dates of their respective
   Commissssions.

4. Officers relinquishing their Commis-
   sions in the Militia Service are not to be
   considered as retaining any rank therein
   either from them or from any Brevit Com-
   mission they may have held, except in cases
   which may have been exempted from this
   Regulation by the Governor's special
   authority.

5. Officers of Militia (see Queen's Regu-
   lations, see Page 4, Par. 12), having also
   Rank in Her Majesty's Regular Service are
   not permitted whilst serving in the Militia
   to avail themselves (in so far as the Militia
   is concerned) of any other rank than that
   which they hold by virtue of their Militia
   Commissions.

6. When an Adjutant holds the rank of
   Captain in addition to the appointment of
   Adjutant, he will take rank, precedence and
   command after the junior Captain of the
   Regiment, irrespective of the date of his
   Commission as Captain.

Appointment, Promotion, and Resignation
of Officers.

1. No person will be eligible to hold a
   Commission in the Militia until he has at-
   tained the age of seventeen years.

2. All recommendations for Commissions
   are to certify the eligibility of the person
   recommended in respect to education, cha-
   racter, and bodily health, and to state his
   Christian Names in full, age and place of
   address.

3. All applications regarding Militia
   appointments, promotions, exchanges or
   removals, or for permission to retire from
   the Militia Service are to be transmitted
   through the Deputy Adjutant General by
   the Senior Officer of the Regiment or Bat-
   talion to which the applicant belongs, who
   will forward them with remarks as he may
   think fit.

4. The New Zealand Gazette published
   by authority, in which all Militia and Vo-
   lunteer Militia appointments, promotions,
   and removals are inserted, and which are
   transmitted by the Colonial Secretary to
   all Commanding Officers of Regiments,
   Battalions, and Corps, are to be considered
   as official notifications of the appointments,
   &c., so published.

5. When an Officer is desirous of retiring
   from the Militia service he is to send his
   resignation through the Commanding Offi-

cer of his Regiment to the Deputy Adju-
tant General.

6. Officers who give in the resignation
   of their Commissions are not in conse-
   quence absolved from duty until it has
   been notified that their resignation has been
   accepted in the New Zealand Gazette.

7. Commanding Officers of Regiments
   of Militia and Volunteer Militia when em-
   bodied and serving on Actual Service under
   the Command of an Officer in Her Majes-
   ty's Regular Service, are, previously to
   forwarding the resignation of his Commis-
   sion by any Officer, to submit it to the
   Officer in command for his remarks.

8. Officers on being newly appointed to
   Commissions in the Militia Service are
   liable to serve whenever called upon to do
   so by the Officer commanding the Regi-
   ment, Battalion, or Corps, to which they
   may be appointed.

Correspondence.

1. All Correspondence which relates to
   subjects connected with the discipline and
   efficiency of the Militia and Volunteer
   Forces is to be addressed to the Deputy
   Adjutant-General of Militia and Volun-
   teers, Auckland.

2. All Correspondence relative to dis-
   bursements, or pecuniary claims to pay,
   allowances, clothing, the purchase of arms,
   ammunition, stores, and works of all kind
   connected with Militia and Volunteer ex-
   penditure, or which refer to the construction
   and explanation of Acts of the Legislature,
   is to be addressed to the Colonial Secretary,
   Auckland, endorsed "Militia Branch."

3. Official letters are to contain in them-
   selves full information of all particulars
   upon the subject to which they relate, and
   each letter is to refer to one subject only.

MILITIA NOTICE.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, 27th March, 1861.

WITH reference to the Militia Notice of
the 11th December last, published in
Gazette No. 39, of the 14th December,
1860, the respective Senior Officers of
Battalions and Companies are requested to
forward to the Colonial Secretary's Office,
as soon as possible, lists of the names of
all persons liable to serve who have not
already been sworn in.

These lists are to have the names classi-
fied in accordance with the provisions of
the 2nd section of the Militia Act Amend-
ment Act 1860.

The respective Senior Officers will also
forward the names of every person liable to
serve who has failed to comply with the 7th
section of the above-mentioned Act, which
requires each such person to give in his
name, age, and place of residence, to the
Senior Officer, or the Officer appointed for
that purpose by the latter, under the for-
feiture of a sum not exceeding £5.

E. W. STAFFORD.