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Troop Orders

1 Officers Commanding Divisions will in future visit
their Station, at least once every two months and mention
the same in their monthly reports.

2 The Commandant calls upon the officers generally
for a more active and Zealous discharge of their duties,
for upon their example and exertions entirely depend
the efficiency of the Corps.

[crossed out: 3 ] The duties of the Officers of the Native Police are
never ending, their presence is required everywhere, and it
is solely by their intelligence, unceasing vigilance and
watchful Superintendence of their men that that protection
can be afforded to the Country which the public have a
right to expect and the Commandant feels assured, that
this can in no way be more effectually carried out than
by their constant personal Superintendence of the different
Stations, and more than ordinary care in Visiting & patroling
those districts infested by Robbers Blacks and Bushrangers.

3 Several instances having occurred of Men losing their
Horses, by allowing them to stray away from not taking
the usual precautions to secure them or by putting in
paddocks improperly closed. The Commandant makes
known that he will punish severely any man who becomes
non

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non-effective by losing his horse, and should the
horse be not eventually found the man will be
charged with the full value