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1855 published in the Government Gazette of the Province dated 6th October 1855 is hereby suspended until further notice.

CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.

Superintendent's Office,
30th October, 1855.

Superintendent's Office,
New Plymouth, 6th November, 1855.

AT the request of the Officer Commanding Her Majesty's Troops in this Province the following Clauses of the Mutiny Act are published for general information.

CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.

MUTINY ACT.

Penalty for inducing Soldiers to desert.

Clause 87. ANY Person who shall in any part of Her Majesty's Dominions, by Words or by any other Means whatsoever, directly or indirectly procure any Soldier to desert, or shall by Words or by any other Means whatsoever attempt to procure or persuade any Soldier to desert, and any Person who, knowing that any Soldier is about to desert, shall aid or assist him in deserting, or, knowing any soldier to be a Deserter, shall conceal such Deserter, or aid or assist such Deserter in concealing himself, shall be deemed guilty of a Misdemeanor, and shall, on Conviction thereof, be liable to be punished by Fine or Imprisonment, or both, as the Court before which such Conviction shall take place may adjudge.

Penalty for purchasing Soldiers Necessaries, Stores, &c.

Clause 91. ANY Person who shall knowingly detain, buy, exchange, or receive from any Soldier or Deserter, or any other Person, on any Pretence whatsoever, or shall solicit or entice any Soldier, or shall be employed by any Soldier, knowing him to be such, to sell, any Arms, Ammunition, Clothes, or Military Furniture, — or any Provisions, — or any Sheets or other Articles used in Barracks, prescribed under Barrack Regulations, — or Regimental Necessaries, — or any Article of Forage provided for any Horses belonging to Her Majesty's Service, — or who shall have in his or her Possession or Keeping any such Arms, Ammunition, Clothes, Furniture, Provisions, Spirits, Articles, Necessaries, or Forage as aforesaid, and shall not give a satisfactory Account how he or she came by the same, — or shall change the Colour of any Clothes as aforesaid, — shall forfeit for every such Offence any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds, together with Treble Value of all or any of the several articles of which such Offender shall so become possessed; — and if any Person having been so convicted shall afterwards be guilty of any such Offence, and shall be convicted thereof by one or more Justices of the Peace, every such Offender shall for every such offence forfeit any Sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds but not less than Five Pounds, and the Treble Value of all or any of the several Articles of which such Offender shall have so become possessed, and shall in addition to such Forfeiture, be committed to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to Hard Labour, for such Term not exceeding Six Calendar Months as the convicting Justice or Justices shall think fit; — and upon any information against any person for a Second or any subsequent Offence a copy of the Conviction, certified by the proper Officer having the Care or Custody of such Conviction, or any Copy of the same proved to be a true Copy, shall be sufficient Evidence to prove a Conviction of the former Offence; — and if any credible Person shall prove on Oath before a Justice of the Peace, or Person exercising like Authority, according to the Laws of the Part of Her Majesty's Dominions in which the Offence shall be committed, a reasonable Cause to suspect that any Person has in his or her Possession, any Property of the Description herein-before described, on or with respect to which any such Offence shall have been committed, the Justice may grant a Warrant to search for such Property, as in the Case of Stolen Goods; — and if upon Search any such Property shall be found, the same shall and may be seized by the Officer charged with the Execution of such Warrant, who shall bring the Offender in whose Possession the same shall be found before such Justice, to be dealt with according to Law: — PROVIDED always, that it shall be lawful for the Legislature of each or any of Her Majesty's Colonies, on the Recommendation of the Officer for the time being administering the Government of any such Colony, but not otherwise, to make Provision by Law for reducing such pecuniary Penalty if not exceeding Twenty Pounds, to such Amount as may to any such Legislature appear to be better adapted to the Ability and pecuniary Means of Her Majesty's subjects other inhabiting the same, which reduced Penalty shall be sued for and recovered in such and the same Manner as the full Penalty hereby imposed: — PROVIDED also, that it shall be competent to Her Majesty, or to the Person administering the Government of any such Colony on Her Majesty's Behalf, to exercise, in respect of the Laws so to be passed as aforesaid, all such Powers and Authorities as are by Law vested in Her Majesty or in any such Officer as aforesaid in respect of any other Law made or enacted by any such Colonial Legislature.

Superintendent's Office,
New Plymouth, Nov. 8th, 1855.

TENDERS will be received at this Office until noon on Saturday the 1st of December next for the occupation for a period not exceeding three years to commence on the 1st day of January 1856, of the Reserve appropriated as a Quarantine Ground for Scabby Sheep—the occupier undertaking to take charge of such scabby sheep as may be ordered into Quarantine at the weekly sum of four-pence per head. The occupier is to be at liberty to depasture neat cattle or horses, but not sheep, on any surplus food; and will be bound to fence against adjoining lands at a distance therefrom of six feet if called upon by the owner of such lands, and to give up possession of the said Reserve, clear of fern and in grass, at the expiration of the term.

CHARLES BROWN,
Superintendent.

Printed by G. W. WOON for the Provincial Government.