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OF MILITIA AND VOLUNTEERS. 7

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Sub-Enclosure to Enclosure in No. 8.

CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM. Horse Guards, S.W., 12th September, 1857. Doubts having sometimes arisen between the Governor of a Colony holding the Commission of Governor and Commander-in-Chief, and the Officer Commanding the Troops, as to their relative authority and powers, it is to be distinctly understood, that the title of ComHiander-in-Chirf with which a Civil Governor of a Colony is invested, gives him no power or authority over the Queen s Troops or the Military Chest; but "that it undoubtedly belongs to the Governor oi a Colony to call out or organize, any body or bodies of men, whom, in ihe exercise of any general or special authority lawfully vested in him, he may judge it necessary or right to summon for the defence ot the Colony against aggression, or for the preservation of public tranquillity. The' Officers who may be selected to command these bodies can only be commissioned by the Governor and Commander-in-Chief, in the name and on behalf of the Queen. The Clothing, Arms. Rations, and Pay, of the Officers and Men must be subject to such provision as may be made by the Colony, in pursuance of any legislative enactment passed, or to be passed, tor this purpose. If the Colonial Treasury should be unable to meet such expenditure, recourse must be had to the Military Chest; and it is the duty of the Officer Commanding Her Majesty s Forces to authorize by his warrant, upon the requisition of the Governor, the issue ot such advances as may be considered necessary for the purposes in question. If such Local Force, or any portion of it, becomes embodied with the Queen's Troops, either in Division, Brigades, or Detachments, the selection of Officers for the command of such a mixed *orce rests with the Officer Commanding the Queen's Troops. As it is indispensably necessary that the Governor of a Colony should upon all occasions receive the earliest intelligence of the movements of the Troops, and of every occurrence which falls withm their observation, it is the duty of the Officer Commanding any detached Force or Post to send to the Governor of the Colony direct, copies of all reports which he may from time to time receive. In the event of active Military operations taking place in a Colony, it exclusively belongs to the Governor to state and explain to the Officer Commanding the Troops the policy oi Her Majesty 8 Government, and the Military measures by which that policy is to be obtained, but it rests with the Officer Commanding the Troops alone to direct the execution of those measures. Officers Commanding at the several Foreign Stations will be pleased to give directions that the above Instructions be officially recorded at the Stations under their command, as contemplated at page 344 of The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army. By Command, (Signed) W. F. Forster, D.A.G. To General or other Officers Commanding at Foreign Stations and to Civil Governors of Colonies.

No. 9. THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. Taranaki, 12th July, 1860. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's Letter of the 26th ultimo, No. 88, on the subject of advances from the Treasury Chest for Militia purposes. Having transmitted a copy of the same with the Circular enclosed therein to the Senior Commissariat Officer, I now forwarded for your information a copy of his reply thereto. I have, &c. (Signed) C. E. Gold, Colonel Commanding the Forces. His Excellency the Governor, &c, &c, &c.

(No. 2654.)

Enclosure in No. 9. ASSISTANT COMMISSARY GENERAL JONES TO MAJOR OP BRIGADE. Commissariat. Taranaki, lOth July, 1860. Sir — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of this date enclosing a copy of a communication from His Excellency the Governor respecting advances ftom the Treasury Chest