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188. Despatches are classified and should be dealt with as follows:-
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1. Numbered Despatches, which the Governor is to lay before his responsible advisers (or the Executive Council), unless there be some special reason to the contrary, and which he may publish unless expressly directed not to do so.
2. Despatches marked Confidential, which the Governor may, if he thinks fit, com- municate under the obligation of confidence to his Responsible Advisers (or to the Executive Council) and may make public, if it should appear to him that circum- stances are not such to render it necessary that they should continue to be kept confidential.
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3. Despatches marked Secret, which are addressed to the Governor personally, and the contents of which he is forbidden to make known without express authority from the Secretary of State.†
The foregoing instructions apply also to telegrams.
* By Circular, 7th Dec., 1892, formal correspondence,
such as records of telegrams, &c., should not be numbered.
↑ See also Circular, 31st July, 1895.
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