WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly, 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 Taranaki:

1. The term of service for each Volunteer to be one year from the day he is sworn in: 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 time and place as shall be fixed by the Governor or by such person or persons as he may from time to time authorise in that behalf: Provided also that no Volunteer shall be compelled to attend to be trained or exercised more than one hundred and sixty-eight hours in any one year.

3. 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.

4. The Adjutant and Staff Serjeant of the Taranaki Militia will act as Adjutant and Serjeant Major respectively to the Volunteers of the district, and all Serjeants and Corporals must be examined and passed as competent by the Adjutant before they will be appointed.

5. 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.

6. All orders and communications from the Governor or Government of the Colony shall be transmitted through and given out by the Adjutant.

7. 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 not exceeding one pound for every day on which he shall be so absent.

8. If any arms, accoutrements, ammunition, or other Government property shall be injured, destroyed, or expended by being used except on service, the Volunteer in whose charge such arms, accoutrements, ammunition, or other property were at the time, shall pay a sum not exceeding the value of the same respectively.

9. Every Volunteer who shall appear at drill without the appointed arms, accoutrements, and dress, or any part thereof, or with the same in a dirty or neglected state, shall pay a sum not exceeding ten shillings for every such offence.

10. Every Volunteer who shall be guilty of inattention or carelessness, or who shall misbehave himself at drill in any manner not before specified, shall pay a sum not exceeding twenty shillings nor less than five shillings for every such offence.

11. All such fines shall be fixed by the Captain and Adjutant and shall be paid to the Adjutant on demand, and if not so paid they may be recovered in a summary way by him on behalf of the Government in any Resident Magistrate's Court in the Colony.

12. 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, 6, 7, 9, 18, 19, 20, 21 except the proviso thereto, 22, 23 except when assembled for the purpose of being trained and exercised only, and 24.

F. G. Steward,
Clerk of Executive Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 12th January, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint,
The Resident Magistrate, Auckland,
The Resident Magistrate, Napier,
The Resident Magistrate, Wellington,
and
The Resident Magistrate, New Plymouth,
under the XI Section of "The Militia Act, 1858," to call Special Meetings of the Justices of the Peace, for the purpose of forming Militia Lists.

E. W. Stafford.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 12th January, 1859.

THE following Ordinance, passed by the Superintendent and Provincial Council of the Province of Taranaki, intituled

"Fencing Ordinance, 1858,"

having been laid before the Governor in conformity with the provisions of the Constitution Act, His Excellency has been pleased to leave the same to its operation.

E. W. Stafford.

WHEREAS by the "District Courts Act, 1858," it is provided that there shall be within the Colony Courts of Record possessing Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction, to be called "District Courts," and the Governor is empowered from time to time by notification in the New Zealand Gazette to fix the time and places within the District at which every such Court shall be held.

Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the Colony, do hereby, in pursuance and execution of the said power and authority, fix that a Session of the District Court of Otago shall be held at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago; and a session of the District Court of Taranaki, at New Plymouth, in the Province of Taranaki, on the fifteenth day of March next, respectively.

As witness my hand, this thirteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

T. Gore Browne.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Auckland, 13th January, 1859.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint...