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CHAPTER VI.

§1. Precedency, Victoria Cross, Foreign Orders, Salutes, and Flags.

155. The precedency of Colonial Officers is in some cases determined by Colonial Enactments,

by Royal Charters, by Instructions communi- cated either under the Royal Signet and Sign Manual through the Secretary of State, or by authoritative usage. In the absence of any such special authority, Governors are to guide them- selves by the subjoined table.

*156. Table of precedence of Colonial Officers.

The table of precedence within the Dominion of Canada is given in Appendix 17.

APPENDIX.

17. (Par. 156, Note.)

TABLE OF PRECEDENCE WITHIN THE DOMINION

OF CANADA.

By a despatch from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, bearing date 29th December, 1893, certain altera. tions were made in the Table of Precelence, and the following is now the amended-

TABLE OF PRECEDENCE.

1. The Governor-General or Officer Administering the Govern

ment.

2. The Senior Officer commanding His Majesty's Troope within the Dominion, if of the rank of a General, and the Officer commanding His Majesty's Naval Forces on the British North America Station, if of the rank of an Admiral. Their own relative rank to be determined by the King's Regulations on the subject.

3. The Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario,

Quebec.

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The North-West Territories.

11. Archbishops and Bishops, according to seniority.

12. Members of the Cabinet, according to seniority.

13. The Speaker of the Senate.

14. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

15. The Chief Judges of the Court of Law and Equity, according

to seniority.

16. Members of the Privy Council, not of the Cabinet.

17. The Solicitor-General,

18. The Controller of Customs,

19. The Controller of Inland Revenue.

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