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112. The Colonial Government, on timely application from the Officer, is to transmit such a certificate to the Crown Agents, furnishing the Officer with a duplicate.*

113. The following Rules are to be observed in regard to the salary to be drawn by Officers appointed to the provisional administration of Governments, or transferred from one Government to another :-

Whenever the Government of a Colony may be vacated by the death, recall, or resignation of the holder of it, or when the Governor may be absent on leave, the person succeeding to the administration of the Government shall (if previously resident in the Colony) receive half

of the salary of the Governor; and the full "Table Allowance," in cases where any such allowance is made.

Should any Officer in the Civil Service of a Colony be called to administer the Government of a Colony in either of the aforesaid cases, he will (if no other arrangement has been made and sanctioned on his assumption of the Government) be entitled to receive half the salary of the Governor, together with half the salary of his own Office.

Should the person called to the administra- tion have been removed from the Public Service in another Colony for the purpose, he shall receive, during a vacancy of the Govern- ment to which he shall so have been called, and until the embarkation of his Successor, the whole salary of the Governor; and "Table Allowance," as above stated.

* See note on preceding page.

By Circular Despatches of 30th March, 1881, and

7th May, 1883, Officers administering Governments in West Indies are allowed leave of absence on full pay for a period not exceeding six weeks in one year,

or three months leave of absence in two years on half-pay, and by Despatch of 1st January, 1895, the Governors of Barbados, British Guiana, Jamaica, Leeward, Windward Islands and Trinidad, may, with permission of the Secretary of State, have full pay leave to visit other British West Indian Colonies not exceeding four weeks at one time or in one year. The Governor of Mauritius may take leave not exceeding six weeks in any year on full pay (see Ordinance XI. of 1900), and the Governors of the Straits Settlements, Hong Kong and Seychelles, are allowed full pay leave. not exceeding three months in any two years.—[ED. C.O. LIST.]