PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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C.O.88
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any one year. The officer administering the government is entitled in the absence of the Governor from the Colony to draw in full any allowance provided for entertainment and also any duty allowance,
107. If the period of a vacancy or of the absence of the Governor should exceed nine months, and there should be any salary available, the Secretary of State will approve such arrangements as may appear reasonable for the increase of the salary of the temporary holder for the period of excess.
108. On appointment to a Government, half salary when available and when permitted by law will be allowed as a general rule from the date of embarkation from England or a colony. An officer succeeding to the administration or the provisional administration of a Colonial Government will be entitled to draw full or half salary, as he case may be, in respect of the day on which he assumes the administration. The tfficer whom he succeeds will not be entitled to any payment for that day, except the half salary granted in cases of absence on leave.
109. If a Governor is transferred from one colony to another and comes to England on his way thereto, he will, if the Secretary of State is satisfied that such return is unavoidable or in furtherance of the public interest, usually receive the half salary of the Government which he relinquishes, until the date of his embarkation from England for the Government to which he is appointed; but if such half salary is not available he will usually receive the half salary of the new Government. If no half salary is available from either Government he can receive no salary.
§ 9. Passages.
110. The following is the scale of allowances to be granted from Imperial Funds to Governors, including in that term all officers administering governments, where appointed for the usual term of years, for their passages from this country:
Australia: Governor-Genera!
Australian States
Ceylon..
...
Bermuda
British Honduras
Canada: Governor-General
Cape of Good Hope
Cyprus
...
East Africa Protectorate
Falkland Islands
Fiji Gambia
...
Gibraltar
Gold Coast Hong Kong
Malta
Mauritius
Natal
Newfoundland
New Zealand
Northern Nigeria
...
£2,000
800
350
300
400
500
700
400
350
400
800
150
200
200
800
300
700
450
300
1,000
200
Nyasaland
450
Orange River Colony
450
St. Helena
300
Seychelles
400
Sierra Leone
200
Somaliland
250
:
South Africa High Commissioner.
Combined offices
1,200
200
800
400
500
350
Transvaal: Governor.
Southern Nigeria
Straits Settlements
Uganda
Weihaiwei
West Indian Colonies
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111. A Governor will be granted the same amount of passage allowance on retiring at the expiration of his term of office or on being transferred to another appointment, but he must not draw for the amount without the previous sanction of the Secretary of State. If, however, he comes home on leave of absence or is relieved at his own request, before the expiration of his term of office, he must provide his own passage.
112. If a Governor is transferred to another appointment he will not be entitled to passage allowance to this country from the Colony from which he is so transferred and also from this country to the Colony to which he is about to proceed, unless the Secretary of State is satisfied that his return to this country was unavoidable, or in furtherance of the public interests; but the allowance to be granted to him will be calculated according to the probable expense of the direct passage from one Colony to the other, estimate on the same principle as the passage allowance from England. In the case of a public officer (not a Governor) or other person resident in a Colony who may be appointed to the government of another Colony, the same principle will be followed as nearly as circumstances will admit. A Governor who may return to this country for other reasons than those above stated, or who is transferred while he is on leave in this country, will be entitled to the single passage allowance from England to his new Colony, unless that allowance be greater than the sum which might have been allowed for a direct journey from the old Colony to the new one, in which case the latter amount only will be allowed.
113. When a Governor or other officer is proceeding to another Colony to administer the government temporarily, or returning therefrom, he will be allowed from Imperial funds such expenses as the Secretary of State may deem to have been reasonably incurred for the removal of himself and his family,
Whenever a
114. No passage in His Majesty's ships is to be given to Governors or other public officers at the public expense except on the application of the Governor to the senior naval officer on the spot. The expense for the entertainment of such passengers will not be paid from public funds, unless the Secretary of State approves. Governor has occasion to apply to the senior naval officer for a passage in one of His Majesty's ships för himself, or for any officer under bis Government, he must immediately report the case to the Secretary of State, informing him at the same time of the circumstances in which the application was made.
115. The expense for the entertainment on board of His Majesty's ships of a Governor or other public officer must be paid to the paymaster of the ship at the end of the voyage, and, if possible, before leaving the ship,
116. If such expense is to be charged on the Imperial or Colonial Treasury, it may be defrayed by a bill drawn in the former case on the Paymaster-General, and in the latter case on the Colonial Government. Such bills must be drawn at not less than ten days' sight, either by the Governor or with his written sanction. In case the expense is to be borne on Imperial Funds, the Governor will report by the first opportunity his having given such sanction, and will direct the public officer to whom it may have been given to transmit an immediate and direct advice to the Secretary of State of his having drawn
the bill, and to forward at the same time the Governor's sanction for his having done so, and a receipt from the paymaster of the vessel for the amount so drawn.
117. The scale of allowances for entertainment on His Majesty's ships at the table
of the Captain or Commanding Officer is as follows:-
I. For any Governor or High Commissioner whose salary is not less than £3,000 per annum, exclusive of allowances, £4 per diem for the first seven days, and afterwards 21s. a day.
II. For any other Governor, or for a Lieutenant-Governor, Administrator or Commissioner, £3 per diem for the first seven days, and afterwards 21s. a day.
III. For the persons composing the suite of Governors, &c., 21s. a day for each male person above the age of 16: two-thirds of that sum for every female above 16; one-third for such of either sex as shall be between the ages of 7 and 16; and one-fourth for such as may be under 7 years of age.
IV. For other public officers 21s, a day for the first fourteen days, and 15s. a day afterwards; and the proportions with respect to age and sex, us stated in the preceding paragraph.