Southland Provincial Gazette – 1864 – No. 18

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✨ Regulations and Tenders



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  1. Commissions for all officers shall be submitted, for his approval, by the troop or company to which they are proposed to be appointed. No commissions will be issued (unless to officers who have held commissions in the Regular Service) until the Candidates are found fit after examination.

  2. All non-commissioned officers shall be elected by the volunteers of the troop or company to which they are to be appointed, and shall be examined by the senior officer of such troop or company, and if passed as competent, shall be appointed by the officer commanding as aforesaid.

  3. All volunteers shall be subject to the provisions contained in the following sections of the “Militia Act, 1858,” viz:— 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 24; and in the following sections of the “Militia Act Amendment Act, 1860,” viz:— 10, 11, 13, 14, 16 and 18.

  4. General parades of all volunteers in each district shall be held on a day in each quarter to be fixed by the Governor.

  5. Each troop or company which shall consist of sixty volunteers or more, shall receive from the Government annually the sum of £75 pounds.

  6. Each volunteer, after four years service as such, shall be at all times thereafter exempt from attendance for training and exercise in the Militia; half the period of service of volunteers, under former regulations, this day abolished, shall be allowed to reckon.

  7. Every volunteer shall take the following oath, to be administered to him by the commanding officer of the body of volunteers in which he intends to serve, or by the adjutant of the Militia:—

I ... do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and that I will faithfully serve in the ... until I shall be lawfully discharged.

  1. In the construction of these regulations, the phrase “Officer Commanding” shall, in case of his absence from the district, or incapacity to act by reason of illness, or any other cause, mean the officer of the same body of volunteers next in seniority.

HAMPDEN WILLIS,
For Clerk of Executive Council.

THE following List of Accepted and Non-Accepted Tenders is published for general information:—

Work Accepted Declined
Construction and maintenance of 38 chains of streets, Riverton Robert Jamieson, £799 18s. John Campbell, £992 13s.
Henry Clarke & Co., £800
Berridston & Ott, £800
Mataura Road. Pitching and metalling 28 chains M’Neil & Wilson, £650 15s. 6d. H. Clarke & Co., £648 7s.
J. Campbell, £803 6s.
J. M’Mahon, £896 16s. 6d.
Greville & Whiting, £1,053 5s.
Forage, Police Survey Stables, for six months Alex. Cook, hay £9 per ton.
T. Brunton & Co., best oats, per bushel 6s. 6d.; Danish do. 5s. 6d.; bran, per bushel 2s. 6d.; cracked maize do. 7s. 6d.; chaff, per cwt. 10s.		 T. Brunton & Co., provincial hay, per ton 14s.; imported, 17s.
John Sutherland, hay, £12 per ton
John Hamilton, hay per ton, £15 15s.; chaff, £10; oats per bushel, 8s.; bran do 2s. 6d.
G. W. Binney, colonial oats, per bushel, 7s. 6d.; best bran do 2s. 3d.; imported hay, per ton £14; chaff, per ton £16 10s.
Hare & Bull, chaff, per cwt. 16s.; gram, per do 18s.; hay, per ton £15; maize, per bushel, 7s. 6d.; oats, per bushel, 7s.


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🛡️ Regulations for Volunteer Services (continued from previous page)

🛡️ Defence & Military
12 May 1864
Volunteers, Regulations, Service Terms, Training, Discharge, Commissions, Oath
  • Hampden Willis, For Clerk of Executive Council

🏗️ List of Accepted and Non-Accepted Tenders

🏗️ Infrastructure & Public Works
Tenders, Construction, Maintenance, Forage, Riverton, Mataura Road, Police Survey Stables
17 names identified
  • Robert Jamieson, Accepted tender for street construction
  • John Campbell, Declined tender for street construction
  • Henry Clarke, Declined tender for street construction
  • Berridston, Declined tender for street construction
  • Ott, Declined tender for street construction
  • M’Neil, Accepted tender for road work
  • Wilson, Accepted tender for road work
  • J. M’Mahon, Declined tender for road work
  • Greville, Declined tender for road work
  • Whiting, Declined tender for road work
  • Alex. Cook, Accepted tender for forage
  • T. Brunton, Accepted tender for forage
  • John Sutherland, Declined tender for forage
  • John Hamilton, Declined tender for forage
  • G. W. Binney, Declined tender for forage
  • Hare, Declined tender for forage
  • Bull, Declined tender for forage