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THURSDAY, JUNE. 18.

KII‘YJTIA DEPARTMENT, 9th J une,,1868.

w 1 (3r eneral 01 der. ‘BY HIS EXCELLENCY TIIE COMMANDER-IN—CHIEF. r HE. absentees from the annual training of the 1st Queen’s County Regiment, will make up their train— ing in accordance with the provisions of the 13th clause of the amended Militia Law. 30th Vic., chap. 6. They will perform the same number of days’ drill as the Regiment. Lieut. Col. MCGill will make the arrangements as to the days and hours. By order, . V (Signed) A. J. DOUGLAS SMITH, Col. Inspector of Militia.

MILITIA DEPAR'I‘MEN'I‘, 15th June, 1868..

General Order. BY IIIS EXCELLnxeY TIIE COMMAXimn-Ix-CIIIEF. ( UEEN’S County Volunteer Militia-~Royalty Company. 1 ——Color Sergeant Fred’k James Curtis. to be acting Ensign vice James \Valkertawho:resigns.

5th King’s. County. Regiment of Militia.-\k’i‘tli refer- ence to General; Order, 26th August, 1867, the following alteration in, and. addition to, the Company districts of the above Regiment will take place from this date :—

f‘No. 5 Company—The \Vestcrn portion of Township» No. 64.

1" o. 6 Company—The Eastern portion of Township No. 64., from John Bear’s, on the Murray River, to Thomas Clements’, White Sands, including the Islands in Murray Harbor.

To be acting Captain—John Cowan.

To be acting Lieutena11ts——-Will. Johnson vice Nichol- son, resigned ; Alex. McDonald vice W ightman, resigned; George White.

To be acting Ensigns—Saml. Clark vice Beaten, resigned; Saml. Ilickcn vice McDonald, promoted; Thos. Ilowe.

By order, (Signed) R. A. CROPLEY, Major & asst. Inspector of Militia;

NIILITIA DEPARTMENT, 18th June, 1865.

General? Qrder-

131' ms EXCELLEXCY. THE COMMANDER-IN-CIIXEF. "IRS’E Queen’s. County Regiment Militia—«On the - recommendation of Lieut. Colonel McGill, command-

ing the Rigiment, His Excellency the Connnander-in- Chief has been pleased to remit the ﬁnes made against James F. Purdie and William Nicholson, for absence from drill at the annual training of the Regiment, with the. understanding that allcost in Court be paid by said parties.

By order,

(Signed) R. A. CROPLEY,

Major 8: asst. Inspector Militia.

raiser. EDWARD ISLAND. Separate.

Dowmxo STREET, 25th May, 1868.

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Sta; With reference to your Despatch, No. 94, lst ‘Dccem-

ber, 1366, I have the honor to transmit to you the-

aecompanying copies of an, order of Her Majesty in Council, and of'a Froclamation,.for declaring the Gold Coins of the Sydney Mint a legal tender in those of Her Majesty’s possessions abroad which are speciﬁed in the schedule annexed to the Proclamation.

ROYAL GAZETTE.

You will be so good as to cause this Proclamation to be published, in Prince Edward'ISIand, in the most authentic manner. I

A similar order in Council was passed on the 10th of November, 1866, for making these Coins a legal tender in the Colonies mentioned in the margin.

[Antigum Barbadoes. Bahamas, Bermuda, Cape of Good Hope, British Columbia, Dominica. Falkland. Islands, Gold Coast, Gambia, Gibralter, British Guiana, Grenada, Honduras, Jamacia, Lagos, Malta, Montserat. Nevis, Natal, St. Helena, Sierra Leone, St. Vincent, St. Christopher and its dependencies. st. Lucia, Trinidad. Tobago, Turks’ and 'Caieos Islands, Vancouver Island. Virgin Islands]

I have the honor- to be, &e., &c., &c.,

BUCKINGHAM Sc CHANDOS.

Lieut. Governor Dundas, &c., &c.,.&e.

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AT THE Cornr ATW‘INDson. the 4th day of'May, 1868.

rnnsnxrz- The ucen’s Most Excellent Ma'es r in Council. J

Whereas there was read this day, at the Board. the draft of a Proclamation declaring Gold Coins made at. the Branch of the Royal Mint, at Sydney, New South Wales, a legal tender in certain of Her Majesty's pos-~ sesslons abroad, speciﬁed in a schedule attached to the said' draft Proclamation.

Her Majesty having taken the same into consideration, was pleased; by and withthe advice of Her Privy Coun- cil, to approve thereof, and to order, and it is hereby order-2d, that the said Proclamation do take effect and come into force in each of Her Majesty‘s possessions abroad; speciﬁed in the aforesaid Schedule, upon and from and‘ after such day as shall be, for that purpose, limited by the Governor, or Oiliccr administering the Government, of each of the said possessions, by any proclamation to, be by them, for that purpose, respec- tively issued breach of such possessions.

And the most noble the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, one of Her Majesty’s principal Secretaries of" State, is to gi“vc the necessary directions for causing publication to be made hereof, within Her Majesty’s said possessions abroad.

(Signed) ARTHUR HELPS.

Draft Proclamation referred to in the foregoing Order 2'22 Council.

By the Queen, a Proclamation for declaring Gold Coins made at the Branch Mint at, Sydney, New South Wales, as legal tender throughout such parts of Her Majesty’s Do... minions as are speciﬁed in the Schedule hereunto annexed-

Whereas by an Order in Council, hearing date the Nine-- teenth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and ﬁfty- three. \Ve have thought ﬁt to order that a Branch of our Royal Mint should be established at or near Sydney, in New South \Vales.

And whereas, in the, eighteenth year of our reign. by an Order in Council. dated the Eighteenth day of October, One thousand eight hundred and ﬁfty-four, \Ve have thought ﬁt to order that certain pieces of Gold money should be- coined at the said Branch of our Royal Mint, to be called respectively Australian Sovereigns and Australian Half- Sovereigns, and to be of the same‘respective weights, ﬁne- ness and values with the Sovereigns and Half Sovereigns new current within this our realm.

And whereas, pursuant to, and in virtue of, the powers. given in our said orders in». Council. it is provided that a: coinage of the said Australian Sovereigns and Half Sovem reigns shall be made, and that every such Australian Sover- reign shall have for the obverse, Our Effigy with the inscrip- tion, “Victoria. D. G... Brittaniar Regina D,” and the date of the year, and for the reverse the word' “ Australia," placed in the centre of the piece, encircled1 by a laurel wreath and surmounted by the Royal; Crown, with the inscription. “Sydney Mint, One Sovereign," and with a graining on the edge, and that every such Australian Half Sovereign shall have the obverse in every respect similar to‘ that of the Sovereign, end for the ILVCTSG. the.