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177A. With the view of facilitating the despatch of business, and of guarding against neglect or undue delay in the conduct of correspondence, the Governor of a Colony will send home by the first mail of every month :-

(1.) A schedule of despatches received from the Secretary of State which have been more than a month in his hands without an answer.

(2.) A schedule of despatches sent by the Governor to the Secretary of State which appear

to have remained unanswered for more than one month after having been received.

It should be stated in each case whether any inconvenience is occurring, or likely to occur, by delay in answering. (Enclosure to Circular, 26th October, 1880.)

178. All addresses or petitions to the King, on parchment, must be accompanied by a tran- script on official paper. Protests by Legislative or Executive Councillors should be unfailingly sent home, and if questions respecting legisla- tive proceedings are referred to the Secretary of State, the reference must always be accompanied by extracts from those proceedings.

179. Every Legislative Act must be accom- panied by a statement from the Law Officer of the Crown to the effect that, in his opinion, the Royal Assent may properly be given thereto, or ought not to be, and also by a report from the Governor, or from the Law Officer, giving all requisite explanation respecting

the the object of Act, the motive in which it originated, and any legal or political question which it may involve. Such a report should be sent separately with Act of unusual importance. Other Acts may be trans- mitted in batches as they receive the Governor's

assent.

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180. For the due preparation of Drafts of Acts, special rules are laid down in the Governor's Instructions.

181. Every Act must be enrolled in the Chief Court of Justice in the Colony. For the practice of engrossing and enrolling Acts in this country, see the Appendix No. 8.

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and of the Secretary of State to is addressed, the subject of the nd the number of its enclosures.

enclosures should be noted in the d reference made in the body of the to such portions of them as may

ticular attention.

e enclosures must be copied separ- lio paper, corresponding in size with

ch transmitting them, and must also in a large and distinct hand, with the paragraphs of each enclosure numbered. If an enclosure should of a despatch or letter, it should

1 by a heading designating the person

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the person to whom, it is written,

If it be a copy of a petition or

3 similar descriptive heading should

ould the enclosures be in any foreign

translations of them, as well as to be forwarded.

e enclosures are also to be paged ely through the whole series; but sure should be separately numbered, ted like the despatch, and the docket Decify that the document is e in despatch, No. ——of —.”

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any printed documents are trans- enclosures, six copies of each should

f they are easily to be procured. In wspapers or other printed documents, only a portion may require attention,

n referred to should be cut out, and foolscap paper, with a note at the he date and title of the paper from is extracted, the five extra copies eing annexed in an appendix.*

spatches forwarded to the Secretary hould be accompanied by a schedule,† ise with a statement of the numbers of all despatches which the Governor received from the Secretary of State

preceding occasion, in lieu of a cknowledgment of each despatch.

cular, 12th March, 1884.

calar of 5th October, 1894, the schedule is

be sent in duplicate.

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