placing the colony or the Macao defended posts thereof (e.g. Colombo and Trincomalee in Ceylon) in the position, as it were, of a fortress in a state of siege.

(2) making Governor paramount in cases Sand B, except in regards Military detail placing Kawin in the same relation to the G.O.C. as this G.O.C.-in-C. to a General in the Field.

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