PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE PAY AND EXPENSES

to request that your Excellency will favor me with separate and special instructions, and authorities for each separate requirement, which will be rendered necessary as vouchers to be forwarded Home with the account. I have, &c, (Signed) C. E. Gold, Colonel, Hi 3 Excellency the Governor, Commanding Forces, New Zealand. &c, &c, &c.

No. 8. THE GOVERNOR TO THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS. Government House, Auckland, June 26th, 1860. Sik,— I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 4th instant, on the subject of certain payments required to be paid out of the Commissariat chest for Militia services, and, in reply, I would draw your attention to the 3rd paragraph of a Circular Memorandum from the Horse Guards, dated 12th September, 1857, and published in the New Zealand Gazette (a copy of which is enclosed) of 12lh February, 1858, page 26. It appears from that paragraph that, when Militia are called out for active service, and the Colonial Treasury (as is now the case) is unable to meet the necessary expenditure, the Requisition of the Governor in itself and without any guarantee of repayment, is a sufficient authority to the Officer Commanding the Troops, to order the necessary advances to be made from the Commissariat Chest for the clothing, arms, rations and pay of such Militia. Under existing circumstances, the course most convenient and most beneficial to the public interests will be for me to make one requisition upon you for the necessary advances for the supply of the Militia. When not expressed to the contrary, the pay and allowances to be issued are to be understood to be intended to be made on the same scale as those to the Queen's Troops. When circumstances may appear to require any deviation from that scale, a special authority for such deviation will be givers by me pursuant to the powers contained in the first part of the paragraph in question, the issue of all such advances being left for the sake of simplicity in the hands of the Military Authorities. The wording of the last three lines of the 3rd paragraph of the Horse Guards' Circular appears to contemplate the issue of one Requisition and one Warrant " for such advances as may be considered necessary for the purposes in question" —And several advantages of considerable importance will be secured by this course. The supply of the Militia will be governed and administered in the same manner as that of the Queen's Troops, and will be equally uniform, regular, and prompt, and the accounts will be simplified. As regards the guarantee which has sometimes been requested, and which you appear to think necessary, that the Colony should repay advances of this kind, there seems to be no ground for this request. The question of repayment of war expenses incurred " for the defence of the Colony against aggression, or for the preservation of public [tranquillity," is left for future adjustment between the Mother Country and the Colony, according to the circumstances of the particular case which may have arisen. With these views, I am prepared at once to make a requisition in accordance with the provisions of the 3rd paragraph of the Circular referred to, and I shall accordingly forward a form of Requisition which appears suitable for this purpose. I have, &c, (Signed) T. Gore Brotvne, The Honorable the Officer Commanding the Troops, Governor. New Plymouth.

(No. 88.)

Enclosure in No. 8. THE SECRETARY OF STATE TO GOVERNOR GORE BROWNE. Downing Street, 22nd October, 1857. Sre,— I transmit to you, herewith, for your information and guidance, a copy of a Circular Memorandum which his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief has communicated to the several Officers Commanding the Queen's Troops in the Colonies. You will consider that Memorandum in the light of an additional Colonial Regulation, issued, as it is, for the better definition of the relative powers and authority of Governors of Colonies, and of Officers Commanding Her Majesty's Forces. I have, &c, &c, Governor Gore Browne, C.8., (Signed) H. Labouchere. &c, &c.

Circular,

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