The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-04 00:00:00

THE EFFICIEYOY OP roLusrzEns.—THE 00.
VERNMENT JUIVULATIONS.

The following is the copy of draft of the scheme
,!,,t,sc to the of of vaunt/on, to be submitted to
ter Majesty the Queen in council for aNnoval, under the
ti,,lanteer Act., 1663 :
"1. A volunteer shall be entitled to be deemed an
efficient volunteer, if he obtains • certificate certifying that
he tat fel elhel the requirements and ',commies the qualifies-
si,as ,tated is or upon such one of the annexed forms of
may be applicable in his case, and not other-
wise.
2. Every inch certificate shall be panted as soon as
map be after the 30th day of November in every year, sad
ea bear date the lot day of December, and shall be evi-
dence of the efficiency of the volunteer to whom it is granted
during the year ending the 30th day of November neat fol-
low* its data
"3 Every volunteer fulfilling the, requirements and
possessing the qualifications aforesaid shall be entitled to re-
ceive such a certificate of efficiency.
"4. In the course of each year ending the 30th day of
November, the adjutant of each cage, or administrative
cyst, shall select from time to time such volunteers aa,
Ice Lie opinion, have fulfilled the requirements and possess
ao qualifications aforesaid, and submit their names to the
commanding officer of their corps, with a view to their ob-
taining certificate' of efficiency.

3. if the adjutant refuses to recommend any volunteer
for a certificate, and the volunteer considers himself
Aggrieved thereby, the volunteer may appeal to the com-
manding officer of his corps.
'• 6. If the commanding officer concurs in the adjutant's
recommendation or refusal to recommend, he shall either
ninths certificate, or she approve the withholding of it, as
the CAM may be ; but if be differs from the opinion of the
adjutant be shall refer the matter to the assistant inspector
d volunteers for the district, whose decision shall be final,
and who shall sign the certificate, if he thinks it ought to be
granted, instead of it being signed by the commanding officer
and adjutant. In the case of a corps forming part of an
administrative regiment, or attached for administrative
purposes to another corps, any such reference shall be made
through the officer commanding such regiment, or such lest,
mistimed corps.
7. In the case of a corps forming part of an adminis-
trative regiment, or attached for administrative purposes to
mother corps, the certificate shall be countersigned by the
field officer commanding the administrative regiment or
such last-mentioned corps, this counter signature being
held to imply merely that the field officer has no know•
ledge of any lemon why the certificate should not be
granted. If the field officer thinks fit to withhold his
counter signature from the certificate of any volunteer, he
shall refer the matter to the aasistant inspector of volun-
leen for the district, whose decision shall be final, and who
shall countersign the certificate, if he thioka it ought to be
granted.
"6. Where the situation and circumstances of an artil-
bry volunteer corps are such as, in the opinion of one of
her Majesty's principal secretaries of state, to create serious
obstacles to the fulfilment by the volunteers belonging to
tket corps of the requirement of attendance at gun practice,
the secretary of ante shall have power to dispense with
that requirement.
"9. Where the situation and circumatanme of a rifle
volunteer corps are such as, in the opinion of one of her
Majesty's principal secretaries of state, to create serious
obstacles to the fulfilment by the volunteers belonging to
the corps of the requirement of attendance at battalion
drill such number of times within twelve mouths as is pre-
scribed upon the annexed forms of certificate, the secre-
tary of state shall have power to reduce the number of
battalion drilla, and to increase proportionately the number
of company drills requisite to entitle a volunteer belonging
to the corps to a certificate of efficiency.
" 10. Where the situation and circumstances of a corps
which is not of sufficient strength to constitute by itself a
regiment, brigade, or battalion, are such as, in the opinion
of one of her Majesty's principal seaetaris of state, to
reader it impracticable for the corps to be united with or
snarled for administrative purposes to another corps of the
nue arm, the secretary of state shall have power to make
from time to time such special provision respecting the
granting and signature of certificates of efficiency as he may
think fit.

"11. Where the officer inspecting a volunteer corps at del
metal inspection in any year reports that the corps is not
proficient in drill and instruction to his satisfaction, then,
notwithstanding anything hereinbefore provided, one of her
Majesty's principal secretaries of state shall have power to
direct the withholding of certificates of efficiency at the end
of that year from all volunteers belonging to the corps.
" 12. The officer inspecting a volunteer corps at the an-
nual inspection in any year shall have power to direct the
withholding of a oertiticadi of efficiency at the end of that
year, from any individual volunteer belonging to the corps,
in say case iii which he considers it proper to do so, on
account of the want of proficiency in drill or instruction of
that volunteer.

"13. In Pee any alteration in the terms of any of the
annexed forms of certificate should from time to time appear
expedient, one of ber Majesty's principal secretenee of Mate
my make the gams by regulation, so as no alteration be
thereby made in the amount of the requirements and quali-
fications stated in or upon the form, and so as none of the
provisions of this order be thereby altered.
"14. Terms noel in this order, or in or upon the annexed
forms of certificate, have the same meanings am they have
when used in the Volunteer Act, 1863.
"The term ' recruit,' used upon the annexed forms of cer-
tificate, means a volunteer who has never been returned as
efficient in an annual return of hie oorm It does not,
however, include a volunteer who was at any time returned
as effective in the muster roll of his corps rendered to the
lieutenant of the county, under the acts of parliament in
forte bet ore the passing of the Volunteer Act, 1863."