REGULATIONS FOR THE DUNEDIN VOLUNTEERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 482, 23 February 1861, Page 5

REGULATIONS FOR THE DUNEDIN VOLUNTEERS.

The New Zealand Gazette of 4th January contains the following Regulations for the Dunedin Volunteers : — 1 . The term of service for each volunteer to be one year from the day his services are, or in the case of volunteers already enrolled were, accepted. 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 times as shall be appointed by the Governor or such '•person or persons as he may from time to time authorise in that behalf : Provided always, that no volunteer shall be sompelled to attend more than one hundred and sixty-eight hours in any one year. 3. Every volunteer who shall absent him* self during any part of the time appointed for ] training or exercise, and shall not account for such absence to the satisfaction of the adjutant or captain of his company, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding one pound for every day on which he shall be so absent, to be recovered in a summary way. 4. All officers of companies will be appointed by the Governor, and names for that purpose are to be submitted to him for approval, by the company to which they are proposed to be appointed. 5. The adjutant and staff sergeant of th c regiment or battalion of militia of the district in which volunteers are serving shall ex officio act as adjutant and sergeant of the volunteers^ and all sergeants and corporals must be examined and passed as competent by the adjutant before they will Joe appointed. 6. All rolls, documents, and correspondence shall be kept at the office of the adjutant, and phall be open at all time 3 during office hours for the inspection and information of the'officers of the company to which they relate. 7. All orders and communications from the Governor, or Government of the Colony, shall be given out by the adjutant. 8. If any arms, accoutrements, or other Government * property shall be injured or destioyed by' being used except on service, a fine, not exceeding the value of the arms, accoutrements, or other property, shall be paid by the volunteer in whose charge they were, such fine to be fixed by the adjutant and captain of the company, upon consideration of the circumstances, and, if not paid to the adjutant on demand, may be recovered by him on behalf of the Government in any Resident Magistrate's Court in the colony. 9. Volunteers enrolled under these regulations shall be subject to the provisions contained in the following section of the " Militia Act, 1858," namely, sections 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 18, 19, 20, 21 (except the proviso thereto), '22, and "23 ; and of sections Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 of the "Militia Act Amendment Act, 1860." F.. G. Stkward, Clerk of Executive Council. The same Gazette contains a code of regula- | tions for the volunteers in the Invercargill district.