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part in political affairs, otherwise than by recording their votes at elections; and every violation of this regulation will be forthwith visited with such penalty as the circumstances of the case shall appear to demand.

XX.—Charges against Civil Officers.

Any officer against whom an accusation is made may be suspended by the head of his department, or the County Chairman, until the accusation or complaint has been investigated by the County Chairman, or some other person whom he may appoint.

XXI.—Payment of Salary after Suspension.

If any officer be suspended pending the investigation of any complaint or accusation against him, and he be afterwards dismissed from the service, he shall receive no salary or pay from the date of his suspension; and if he be reduced, the reduced rate of salary or pay shall take effect from the date of his suspension; and if he be fully acquitted of the charges made against him, he shall receive arrears of pay in full from the date of his suspension.

XXII.—Penalties.

The commission by any officer of anything forbidden, and the neglect or violation of anything enjoined in or by these regulations, shall be deemed to be a breach of duty or misconduct that may render it unfit that the officer should remain in the Civil Service; and the penalty for such breach or misconduct shall be, dismissal from the service, or reduction to a lower rank in the service, or to a lower salary within the class, or deprivation of leave of absence. All cases of dismissal and reduction under these regulations shall be notified in the County of Westland Gazette.

Sealed with the Common Seal of the Corporation of the County Council and Inhabitants of the County of Westland, by me, Conrad Hoes, Chairman of the County Council, this twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

C. Hoes.

In the presence of
J. HEAWOOD,
Secretary of the Council.

Hokitika,
9th March, 1869.

The following “Bye-Laws for Regulating the Receipt and Payment of Public Moneys” have been made by the County Council, under the 67th section of “The County of Westland Act, 1868,” and are published for general information.

J. HEAWOOD,
Chief Clerk.

BYE-LAWS FOR REGULATING THE RECEIPT AND PAYMENT OF PUBLIC MONEYS.

I. All moneys which shall be legally payable for, or on account of, the Revenues of the County of Westland shall be paid into the Bank of New Zealand to an account to be called “The County Treasurer’s Account,” and every officer in the Public Service into whose possession or control such moneys shall come, shall pay all such moneys into the County Treasurer’s Account as aforesaid.

II. No part of any County Revenue shall be drawn from “The County Treasurer’s Account,” or shall be issued or paid by the County Treasurer, or any other person who may have the custody or control of the same, except by a cheque, or cheques, under the hand of the County Treasurer, and countersigned by the Chairman of the County Council.

III. Every such cheque shall purport to have been issued under the class of expenditure as voted by the County Council, to which the work or service for which it is paid shall belong.

IV. It shall be the duty of the County Treasurer, whenever the vote of the Council for any particular class of expenditure or special work or service shall have been exhausted, or is being exceeded, to notify the same in writing to the Chairman of the County Council; and he shall not sign any further cheques for such expenditure, work, or service, without a written requisition from the Chairman of the County Council so to do. Provided that the whole amount in any financial half-year of such special requisitions for the issue of money without the vote of the Council shall not exceed in amount one thousand pounds.

V. Whenever any public money has, under the provisions of the last preceding section, been issued without the authority of a vote of the County Council, or in excess of any vote, it shall be the duty of the Chairman of the County Council within one week after the commencement of the then next ensuing session of the County Council to lay before the Council a full statement of all moneys so issued, together with the special requisition of the Chairman under which the County Treasurer so issued them.