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CHAPTER XVII.

Presents.

421. Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, and all other servants of the Crown in a Colony, are prohibited during the continuance of their service in the Colony, from receiving presents, pecuniary or valuable (other than the ordinary gifts of personal friends), which may be offered for their acceptance by the inhabitants of the Colony or any class of them, or by Kings, Chiefs, or other members of the native population in or neighbouring to the Colony, and from giving such presents.

This rule applies not only to the officers themselves, but also to their families, and officers

are responsible for its observance by their families. It is not intended to apply to cases of remuneration for special service rendered, and paid for with the consent of the Government The rule may be relaxed, with the special per- mission of the Secretary of State, upon an Officer's final departure from the service of the Colony.

Money which has been subscribed with a view of marking public approbation of an Officer's conduct, may be dedicated to objects of general utility and connected with the name of the person who has merited such a proof of the general

esteem.

422. When presents from Kings, Chiefs, or other members of the native population in or neighbouring to the Colony, cannot be absolutely refused without giving offence, they are to be delivered up to the Government. To this rule there can be no exception, unless with the express sanction of the Secretary of State, which will be granted only on public and not on personal grounds.

When presents are exchanged between Governors or other officers acting on behalf of the Colonial Government in ceremonial inter- courses with native Kings, Chiefs, or others, the presents received

inust be credited to the

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