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Further to our telno. 2870, we have double-checked
the amendments to the Letters Patent and the Royal Instructions which are to go before Privy Council to-day.
RI XXI (3)
deputy".
President"
one of
We note that in the proposed RI XXI(2)(a) and
there are references to "the President's
This is at variance with the term "the Deputy which appears in the current RIS, and indeed in
your early drafts (ref. Michael Stone's letter of 6 October to Richard Hoare). It is not entirely clear to us how this change in wording has come about.