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Miscellaneous, No. 56.

by Muscelta.

COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

C.O.

Reference :-

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1. The information given in this memorandum applies only to those Colonies which do not possess responsible government: viz, the Bahamas, the Bermudas, Jamaica and the other West Indian Islands, British Honduras, and British Guiana; the Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast Colony, and Lagos, on the West Coast of Africa; St. Helena; the Falkland Islands; Heligoland; Gibraltar, Malta, and (though not strictly speaking a Colony) Cyprus; Ceylon, Hong Kong, and the Straits Settle- ments; Labuan; Mauritius; Fiji; Natal; and Western Australia. It does not apply to any of the Colonies possessing responsible government (viz., Canada, New- foundland, the Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, and New Zealand), in which appointments to public offices are made by the Governor, with the advice of his Executive Council, and are not authorised or confirmed by any commission or warrant from the Crown.

2. Each Colony has its own public service distinct from that of every other Colony; and, as a general rule, it is only the higher officers who are transferred by the Secretary of State from one Colony to another.

3. Offices of which the emoluments do not exceed 1007.

a year are invariably filled by the appointment of local candidates selected by the Governor, who has the absolute disposal of all such appointments.

4. When a vacancy occurs in an office of which the emoluments exceed 100l. and do not exceed 2001. a year, the Governor reports it to the Secretary of State, together with the name and qualifications of the person whom he has appointed to fill it provisionally, and this recommendation is almost uniformly followed.

5. When a vacancy occurs in an office of which the emoluments exceed 2001. a year, the Governor follows the same course as to reporting the vacancy and provisional

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