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Boards in His Majesty's Government, &c., must be in like manner sent to the Governor for
transmission home.
222. The Governor is bound to transmit to the Secretary of State every communication so received by him, accompanied by such report as its contents may appear to him to require.
223. He is to do this with all reasonable despatch, consistently, however, with the delay requisite for the preparation of such report.
224. The Public Officers and other inhabitants of the Windward and of the Leeward Islands and of the West Africa Settlements, will look upon the Governor-in-Chief of each of those Governments as the Referee on occasions when they are dissatisfied with the judgment formed upon their cases by the Lieutenant- Governor of the particular Island, or by the Administrator of the Settlement in which they
reside.
may
225. If they should wish to appeal from the judgment of the Governor-in-Chief to that of the Secretary of State, they are of course at liberty to do so, adhering strictly to the regulations which are above established.
226. In any reports to be made, either by Lieutenant-Governors or Administrators to the Governors-in-Chief, or by the Governors-in- Chief to the Secretary of State, of questions for decision, they will adopt the following rules:-
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227. The Report should comprise three distinct divisions: the first containing a simple narrative of the facts of the case, in the order in which they have occurred, as collected from the documents under consideration, showing merely
the substance of the statements made, and of the rights asserted, or the complaints alleged by the respective parties concerned; the second con- taining the views of the writer as to the merits
or demerits of the parties, or the justice of their several claims or complaints, with the reasons upon which those views proceed; and the third, the decision at which the writer has arrived, after a full investigation of the whole case.
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