Full text: Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

1272 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [parTvV 
time to time to make provision for effecting at the expense 
of the Colony all or any of the purposes following : 
(1) For providing, maintaining, and using a vessel or ves- 
sels of war, subject to such conditions and for such purposes 
as Her Majesty in Council from time to time approves :1! 
(2) For raising and maintaining seamen and others entered 
on the terms of being bound to serve as ordered in any such 
vessel ; 
(3) For raising and maintaining a body of volunteers 
sntered on the terms of being bound to general service in the 
Royal Navy in emergency, and, if in any case the proper 
legislative authority so directs, on the further terms of being 
hound to serve as ordered in any such vessel as aforesaid : 
(4) For appointing commissioned, warrant, and other 
officers to train and command or serve as officers with any 
such men ashore or afloat, on such terms and subject to such 
regulations as Her Majesty in Council from time to time 
approves : 
(5) For obtaining from the Admiralty the services of com- 
missioned, warrant, and other officers and of men of the 
Royal Navy for the last-mentioned purposes : 
(6) For enforcing good order and discipline among the 
men and officers aforesaid while ashore or afloat within 
the limits of the Colony : 
(7) For making the men and officers aforesaid, while ashore 
or afloat within the limits of the Colony or elsewhere, subject 
to all enactments and regulations for the time being in force 
For the discipline of the Royal Navy. 
4. Volunteers raised as aforesaid in any Colony shall form 
part of the Royal Naval (Volunteer) Reserve, in addition to 
the volunteers who may be raised under the Act of 1859 
Naval Forces Act, 1903), but, except as in this Act expressly 
provided, shall be subject exclusively to the provisions made 
as aforesaid by the proper legislative authority of the Colony. 
5. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council from time 
to time as occasion requires, and on such conditions as seem 
fit, to authorize the Admiralty to issue to any officer of the 
Royal Navy volunteering for the purpose a special commission 
for service in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
6. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council from time 
to time as occasion requires, and on such conditions as seem 
fit, to authorize the Admiralty to accept any offer for the 
! This power was one more extensive than could be exercised by a 
Colonial Legislature of its own power, In ss.4 and 7 the words in italics 
are alternatives given by 9 Edw. VIL c. 19.
	        
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