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such an

the Governors

part of

over the general

exercise

of power

do

Control

a Colony.

movements

of

the Troops in a

With respect to the jurisdiction.

the Governor and Commander in Chief

identical instructions

The Lucas's

the Colonial Office.

Commanding the Forces.

elt. Childers, without attaching

undue weight to

right to

of a very

mention

similar

the relations

of

Commanding

the fact, thinks it

that differences

character

existed in

of a boling

over

the Troops

the

Regulations

and

Instructions

Deew

to have been hitherto

found sufficient..

The good sense of

, the Chief Civil and Military Officers.

in

Colony

has

led

them to a

Just

determination.

J

thre

amount of

Control

proper

to

be claimed by the one,

and

allowed

by

the

other;

but a

comparison, and

the General Officer.

at Barbados

and Sir

Pope Stennessy, when Governor of the

Windward

Islands.

to bt.

I have the honour

to be,

Your obedient Servant,

B.G. Deedes

serious difficulty has

Mr. Childers fears that the regulations

are

insufficiently explicit to meet the

strained relations

between

a

Governor

and

a

General Officer

Commanding

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