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§ III. Military Correspondence.

The Governors of Colonies commanding jesty's Troops therein must separate their ondence with the Secretary of State for nies and the Secretary of State for War, ollowing manner :---

Whatever relates to the discipline of the or to the employment of them in any y and established service, or to the relief Troops after their time of local Service

ve expired, or to the interior economy of jesty's Land Forces, will properly form ject of correspondence with the Secretary › for War exclusively.

In the event of actual hostilities with any

Enemy, or of any extraordinary employ-

f the troops for the maintenance of the

ence, such occurrences must be reported the Secretary of State for War, and to retary of State for the Colonies.

In the event of its being thought

y to make or to advise any Military

tion with the Officer in command of the

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any Foreign Power, a Governor iding His Majesty's Troops will at the ne report to the Secretary of State for the

s, and to the Secretary of State for War,

asures which he may have so taken, or which he may wish to recommend for

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In case it should be necessary, in order ler the Governor's Military Reports ible, to make referente, in his corre- ice with the Secretary of State for War, es connected with his Civil Authority,

in every such case at the same time nder the notice of the Secretary of State Colonies the questions of Civil Govern- which he may thus have had occasion to

As any attempt to define the limits of a or's Civil and Military Correspondence om the nature of the case, be imperfect, yomit to provide for some unforeseen y, he will best fulfil the joint pleasure Secretary of State for War and of the

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Secretary of State for the Colonies by conducting

his Civil Correspondence exactly as he would conduct it if he possessed no Military Command, and vice versa. The two functions of Governor and of Cominander of the Forces, though for the time combined in the same person, should be regarded in this respect as entirely separate, and the reports made by the Governor in each capacity should be made precisely in the same manner as if that combination of powers did not exist.

203. The preceding instructions will apply also to the Governor's Correspondence respecting the Service of the Commissariat.

204. The respective officers employed under the War Office are in all cases, without exception, to give timely notice to Governors of any com- munications which they may intend to send home, affecting such Governors or the orders given by them, so that His Majesty's Govern- ment may be simultaneously made acquainted with the opinions of the Governors and with the opinion of those officers on any matter on which

it is requisite that the views of both should be known.

205. When the Civil Governor of a Colony shall have occasion to report upon, or bring under the consideration of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, matters which involve Military as well as Civil considerations, or which require the decision or concurrence of the Secretary of State for War, the Governor will first communicate with the Officer in Command of the Forces in the Colony respecting the matters

in question; and having obtained that officer's opinion or observations thereupon, he will transmit the same with his own report to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.*

206. The Officer in Command of the Forces is similarly instructed to obtain the opinion of the Governor before reporting to the Secretary of State for War, or to any Officer under whose

A Circular was addressed to the Governors of the West African Colonies on the 13th of November, 1899 instructing them as to what constitutes a "mention in dispatches " in the case of military officers serving under the Foreign and Colonial Offices who are recommended for honours.

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