CO885-(16-18) — Page 417

1 2 3

PUBLIC RECORD

OFFICE

| 9

Reference :-

C.O.885

17 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

28

(d) Unless these rules are observed, an officer will not be entitled to pay during any extension of leave which it may be necessary to grant him on the ground of ill-health.

131. Officers to whom the foregoing regulations of this section apply are required to discharge any duties upon which the Governor may think it desirable to employ them; and they are not entitled to receive any available half salary under Regulations 76. 77, 104, 105 and 108, in addition to the salary of their own office, for performing the duties of an office vacated by the death or removal or temporary absence of the holder, but they will draw the duty allowance when acting in any office to which such an allowance is attached.

They may also be required by the Secretary of State to discharge any duty or to go through any course of instruction which he may think necessary during their leave of absence, and will not be entitled to any additional remuneration or leave of absence in consideration of such employment. Allowances granted to cover necessary out-of-pocket expenses are not regarded as remuneration.

132. Free passages to England and out again will be allowed to all officers under the rank of Governor who may be granted leave of absence under regulations 122 and 123; and a free passage out will be allowed on their first appointment to all such officers on their executing the usual agreement under which they will be bound to refund the cost of the passage in the event of their relinquishing their appointment within three years from the date of their arrival in the Colony or Protectorate for any reason than bodily or mental infirmity. Passages will not be granted to wives or children under regulation 121.

ofher

133. If an officer is transferred while.in West Africa from one West African Colony or Protectorate to another, he will be regarded as having completed a tour of service in the Colony or Protectorate to which he is transferred when the sum of his service in the two Colonies or Protectorates amounts to twelve months, and the whole of his salary during leave of absence will be paid from the funds of the last Colony or Protectorate.

134. Persons engaged under agreements in the West Indies or Asia for certain subordinate posts in West Africa are employed on special terms as to leave of absence, under which, after three consecutive years of residential service, they may be granted vacation leave with full pay for two calendar months plus the time necessarily taken on the journey to England, and (if they are returning to West Africa) return leave with full pay for two calendar months plus the time necessarily taken on the journey from England, with free passages to and from their homes. Such persons may also be granted the samne vacation for the purpose of relaxation from business as is allowed to native officials of similar grade, but this annual vacation must not be continuous with the vacation leave or return leave provided for in their agreements.

135. The foregoing regulations (122 to 134) do not apply to native officers, that is to say, officers who were themselves born in West Africa or whose parents were either of them born there. All such officers are subject to the general regulations as to leave of absence and passages, with the exception that they are not entitled to any pay under regulations 76 and 77, when acting in the place of an European officer. They will, however, in lieu of such pay, draw the duty allowance when acting in any office to which a duty allowance is attached; and when they are acting for an European officer and not receiving any duty allowance, the Governor may, if he thinks fit, award a gratuity in respect of such acting service, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State. On the other hand, the regulations numbered 84 to 88, 90, 91, 92 and 95 to 99, do not apply to European officers.

CHAPTER III.-CEREMONIES.

136. The regulations in Chapter III. apply to all Colonies and Protectorates except when otherwise stated.

§11. Precedence.

137. The precedence of officers in Colonies is determined by local enactments, by Royal Charters, by Instructions either under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet or through the Secretary of State, or by authoritative local

usage.

29

138. In the absence of any special authority Governors will guide themselves by the following general table of Colonial precedence :-

The Governor or officer administering the Government. The Lieutenant-Governor.

The Senior Officer in command of the troops, if of the rank of a General, and the officer in command of His Majesty's Naval Forces on the Station, if of the rank of an Admiral, their own relative rank being determined by the King's Regulations on that subject.

The Chief Justice.

The Senior Officer in command of the troops, if of the rank of Colonel or Lieutenant-Colonel, and the officer in command of His Majesty's Naval Forces on the Station, if of equivalent rank, their own relative rank being determined by the King's Regulations on that subject. The Members of the Privy or Executive Councils. The Puisne Judges (in Crown Colonies).

The President of the Legislative Council.

The Members of the Legislative Council.

The Speaker of the House of Assembly.

The Members of the House of Assembly.

The Colonial Secretary (not being in the Executive Council).

The chief Commissioners, Government Agents or Residents of provinces. The Attorney-General (not being in the Executive Council). The Solicitor-General.

The Senior Officer in command of the troops, if below the rank of Colonel or

Lieutenant-Colonel, and the Senior Naval Officer of corresponding rank.

The Auditor-General or Inspector-General of accounts. The Treasurer, or other principal financial officer. The Principal Medical Officer.

The chief officer of customs.

The Director of Public Works or Surveyor-General. The Clerk of the Executive Council.

The Clerk of the Legislative Council.

The Clerk of the House of Assembly.

Not being members of Executive or Legislative Councils.

In Colonies possessing responsible government, and having no special table of pre- cedence, the Puisne Judges take precedence next after the Speaker of the House of Assembly.

139. When two or more Colonies are comprised within one military or naval command, the military and naval officers holding the commands in any one of such Colonies in the absence of the superior commanding officers will take the precedence assigned to them in the Colonial Regulations, and will retain that precedence notwith- standing the presence of the chief superior officers of the whole military and naval commands. No other military or naval officers have any place at all in the general table of Colonial precedence, and the places accorded therein to the Senior Military Officer and the Senior Naval Officer have no connection, except as between those two officers, with the regulations governing military and naval precedence.

140. When a naval officer is a member of a Court of Enquiry into the circum- stances attending the loss of a merchant ship but does not preside over the Court he should sit at the right hand of, and so next in seniority to, the President.

141. The precedence of Members of Councils in Crown Colonies between themselves is regulated by the Royal Instructions.

142. Members of the Royal Family take precedence next after the Governor of the Colony. Persons entitled to official precedence in the United Kingdom, in foreign countries or in any particular Colony are not entitled as of a right to the same precedence elsewhere. In the absence of any special Instructions from the King precedence of such persons will be determined by the Governor. British Subjects enjoying in the United Kingdom precedence by right of birth cannot lose such precedence while either temporarily or permanently residing in a Colony.

24985

E

30