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The Rt. Kouble R. Cardwell

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Received

In

to Circular Despatch

of 19th May

reply

the Colonial Naval defence

on the subject of

Act.

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contribution in Hong Kong.

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CIRCULAR.

Downing Street,

19th May, 1865.

I have the honor to enclose to

you a Copy of the

Colonial Naval Defence Act, which has recently received the

Royal Assent, and to request

sideration

that

you

will bring it under the

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I enclose also a Copy of the regulations at present in force for the Royal Naval Reserve in this country, and a Copy of Letter addressed to this Office, by desire of the Lords Commissioners. of the Admiralty, indicating generally what their Lordships will require as to Colonial Ships of War.

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You will observe that the Imperial Parliament has not made the adoption, by every Colony, of precisely the same regulations those in use in this country, a necessary condition of obtaining for raised in the Colony, the advantages of the Reeserve, but has left it to the Authorities of each Colony to submit for the approval of Her Majesty in Council, such regulations as may seem to them expedient. that the regulations should be such as to secure the end in view, viz., the training in time

It will, of course, necessary

in

every case,

of peace of

who

WILG11

may

be relied on

for service in time of

emergency, and it will doubtless be convenient to to knew what

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