THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 3, 1911.
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3. Members of the Volunteer Reserve shall go through a course of Musketry annually consisting in the Instructional Practices and Standard Tests from time to time laid down for the Hongkong Volunteer Corps or otherwise as the Governor may direct.
4. All members shall undergo such elementery drills (being not less than 6 in num- ber) as the Instructor may deem necessary to enable them to act on word of command and to move in simple formation, and all Members shall satisfy the Inspecting Officer of their competency in such drills.
5. The Military Instructor appointed under Section 6 of the Volunteer Reserve Ordinance, 1910, shall attend the Annual Musketry Course and shall give instruction in Musketry and in Elementary Drill.
6. The Inspecting Officer appointed under Section 7 of the Ordinance aforesaid, shall satisfy himself that the Annual Musketry Course is properly conducted and that the members have a sufficient knowledge of elementary drill as in Rule 4. He shall inspect the Reserve on the completion of the Annual Musketry Course and inake a report to the Governor.
7. A member of the Volunteer Reserve in order to be reckoned as efficient must have completed the Annual Musketry Course and attended not less than 6 drills; and, unless he is specially excused by the President or is incapacitated through sickness, he must be pre- sent at the Annual Inspection of the Reserve.
8. Each member of the Reserve will be supplied with a Rifle and such other appoint- ments as the Governor may direct, subject to the conditions contained in Section 8 of the Volunteer Reserve Ordinance, 1910. Members may retain their Rifles and appointments in their own possession or may store them at the Headquarters of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
9. The Secretary shall keep a Stock Book showing the number of Rifles and other appointments supplied by the Government to the Reserve and also an issue book for record- ing the issue of Rifles and appointments to members. Receipts shall be signed by members of the Reserve to whom Rifles or appointments are issued. The issue book shall be checked by the President and each signature authenticated by his initials.
10. The Government will allow for every member of the Volunteer Reserve who shall complete the Annual Musketry Course 100 rounds of Rifle ammunition and there shall also be issued to the President for purposes of bona fide practice Ammunition at the rate of $3 per 100 or such other rate as may be fixed by the Governor from time to time.
11. The members of the Volunteer Reserve will, until further notice, be allowed a share in the use of the King's Park Rifle Range subject to such regulations as may be approved from time to time by the Governor. Targets will not be supplied by the Government.
12. The Government will make a grant for the Salary of a paid Secretary to the Reserve of $250 per annum if the number of efficients on the completion of the Annual Course of Instructions in Musketry and Drill is between 50 and 100 and a grant of $500 per annum if such number is 100 or more.
13. The Secretary shall keep the following books :--
-(a.) A Roll of Members of the Reserve.
(b.) A record of attendance at Drills, Rifle Practices and Annual Inspection.
(e.) An Account of Receipts and Expenditures.
(d.) A stock book for Arms and Appointments. (e.) An issue book for Arins and Appointments.
C. CLEMENTI,
Colonial Secretary.
3rd March, 1911.