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I invite attention to the attached extracts from the Hangking presentation & two officers of the Sanitary Department.
There has been an epidemic of accepting presents in the East & I would suggest that the Colonial Regulations will be strictly adhered to in future and that anyone accepting presents without previously obtaining the permission of the Governor will be dismissed.
These two officers were instructed to return these presents.
M-Stalls
M-Collins
× Why? If a colleague in his department, or one of his subordinates, likes to give him a present, I do not see that the regulations forbid it.
It is not a case of a gift by the inhabitants of the colony.
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I fear it is only too probable that the native complainant will continue, even if they are forbidden to give money or money's worth to an officer who is indebted to them, when his duties will bring him into contact with the people.
(B) Please see minutes on 2607/00-1 Lagos. The proposal definitely refers to 'fellow-servants' & I gather that Mr. Chamberlain preferred the regulation as it is, prohibiting the acceptance of such presents from any class of inhabitants of the Colony.
I read Regn 423 as including Public servants.
Surely it will include Public servants of the Colony.
There are near enough parallels. In other cases, acceptance is forbidden to officers who are in contact with very large & important inhabitants.
Ris Ask in a confidential dispatch what was the nature of the presentations made by subordinates.
Whether he was concerned in it C.P(L) 21 at once