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Counsel, if usually resident at any place other than that where the Court of Appeal shall sit, a liberal brief fee and refreshers shall be allowed besides reasonable cost of maintenance and travelling expenses for each day during which he shall be necessarily absent from his usual place of abode for the purpose of attending the Court of Appeal.

If the same Counsel, not resident at the place where the Court is held, appear in several cases, his allowance for maintenance and travelling expenses shall be equally divided, and the proper proportion allowed in respect of each case.

GEORGE ALFRED ARNEY, Chief Justice,
ALEXANDER J. JOHNSTON, Judge;
H. B. GRESSON, Judge,
C. W. RICHMOND, Judge.

[Republished from the New Zealand Gazette, 6th May, 1863.]

PROCLAMATION

Bringing into operation “The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862.”

By his Excellency Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS it is provided by “The Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862,” that the said Act shall not come into operation until a day to be fixed by the Governor by Proclamation, to be published in the Government Gazette, and it is expedient that the said Act shall come into operation as herein-after mentioned: Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor as aforesaid of the said Colony, do hereby proclaim and declare that the said “Debtors and Creditors Act, 1862,” shall be in operation in the said Colony from and after the first day of June next ensuing:

Given under my hand, at New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki, and issued under the Public Seal of the said Colony, this second day of May, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. GREY.

By his Excellency’s command.

ALFRED DOMETT.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At a Council held at New Plymouth on the 2nd day of May, 1863.

G. GREY.

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, 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 henceforth accepted in any Militia District within the Province of Auckland:

1. Nothing contained in these Regulations shall affect any Volunteer whose services have been accepted under the regulations made on the Sixteenth day of January, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, unless and until his services shall be offered and accepted under these regulations.

2. Any person desirous of becoming a Volunteer shall be proposed at a parade or meeting of the Company which he desires to join, and shall, subject to the approval of the Governor, be admitted a Volunteer on the vote of the majority, then present of the Company.

3. There shall be no limit to the term of service of any Volunteer: Provided that any Volunteer shall be entitled to be discharged at the expiration of Three months’ notice in writing given by him to the Officer Commanding the body of Volunteers to which he may belong, of his own desire to be so discharged; and, in case such Officer Commanding shall be satisfied that urgent necessity exists for the discharge of any such Volunteer before the expiration of the said notice, he may discharge him accordingly.

4. Each company of foot shall consist of not more than eighty non-commissioned officers and men, and each troop of horse of not more than fifty.

5. A suitable uniform will be issued by Government to each Rifle Volunteer free of cost; but the property in such uniform shall remain in the Government.

6. The financial affairs of a Battalion shall be managed by a committee composed of an officer, non-commissioned officer and private, elected by and from each company: the Treasurer and Secretary to be appointed by such committee from themselves: the Commanding Officer to be ex officio the President, and the Adjutant a member ex officio of such Committee.

7. Every Volunteer shall attend to be trained and exercised at such times and places as shall be appointed by notice in any Gazette or Newspaper issued by or by the authority of the Officer Commanding the body of Volunteers to which he may belong; or by verbal order issued immediately to any Volunteer, or at any parade by or by the authority of such Officer Commanding.

8. No Volunteer shall be absent during any part of any time appointed for training and exercise; and every Volunteer who shall offend against this regulation shall for such offence forfeit and pay any such sum, not exceeding one pound, as shall be fixed by the Officer Commanding.