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Prom Ito 6 Batteries or Companies, 1 Instructor. ~ 7to 12 „ 2 „ 13 to 18 „ 3 Provided that, in districts where, in the opinion of the Commandant, the Sergeant-Instructor can also perform the duties of Staff-Sergeant or of Orderly-room Clerk, it shall be the duty of the SergeantInstructor to do so. 94. Each regiment of Cavalry will be allowed one Instructor. 95. The pay of Drill Instructors to be £150 per annum. 98. The actual travelling expenses necessarily incurred by Instructors will be admitted as a charge against the Government. 97. The leave granted to an Instructor will not exceed twentyeight days in the year. 98. Every Instructor of Volunteers is subject to the provisions of the Army Discipline and Regulation Act in force for the time being. 99. All Instructors are to be considered as under the supervision of the Adjutant, who is required to report to the Officer Commanding the regiment any irregularity of conduct, incompetence, or want of attention which he may observe on the part of an Instructor; and the Commanding Officer, when necessary, will report the circumstances of the case to the Commandant. 100. In the event of an Instructor being guilty of an offence of a sufficiently grave nature to induce his Commanding Officer to submit the case to superior authority, the Instructor will be kept in arrest until orders are received as to his disposal. 101. Whenever circumstances may arise rendering it necessary to try an Instructor by Court-Martial, the Commanding Officer will make aDplication to the Commandant in regard to the assembly of the Court. 102. In case of a conviction, one-third of the pay of a SergeantInstructor will be forfeited for the period during which he was under arrest. 103. A member of the Permanent Staff acquitted or illegally convicted of a charge will, on release from confinement, be entitled to receive full pay from the date on which he was first placed in confinement. 104. A record will be kept of all offences which may be proved against an Instructor, after due investigation by his Commanding Officer. Every entry will be in the handwriting of the Adjutant. 105. The principal duty of an Instructor is to attend to the drill and instruction of the Volunteers of the district in which he is stationed, but he may also, at the discretion of the Commanding Officer, be intrusted with the custody of the arms or rifle range of the corps, or charged with such other military duties as usually devolve on a noncommissioned officer. 106. He may, for example, be required to do orderly-room work, to superintend the cleaning of guns, harness, and arms, and to look after clothing and accoutrements in the Regimental Store without extra payment; but he will not be required to clean arms. 107. An Instructor may be required to mark at class firing, although he should ordinarily be employed at the firing-point, but he should not be required to mark at private practice, or to undertake any duties at the range, not being those of a non-commissioned officer, except with his own consent. 108. Instructors will not be employed in receiving or disbursing the funds of a corps. 109. Sergeant-Instructors will be required to perform such military duties as may be directed by the Officer Commanding. 110. There is no objection to Instructors imparting instruction in drill in local schools, provided that their military duties are in no way interfered with, and that their Commanding Officer's consent is given. 111. The rules laid down in paragraph 61 with reference to Adjutants apply equally to Sergeant-Instructors. 112. Sergeant-Instructors will, on parade, rank as senior to all Volunteer non-commissioned officers. 113. Each Instructor will keep a diary showing how he is employed. When he is employed in attending drill, the description of drill attended and the number of officers and men present will be shown. Election oe Oepicees. 114. Officers will be appointed to companies in the first instance as follows: —Enrolling officers will recommend to the Defence Minister the names of persons whom they may consider eligible and who offer their services. To these officers acting appointments will be given, but they will be required to pass the examination laid down