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illegality of this circular letter to have been decided by the verdict of the jury in the case of Regina Ve Tarrant, but I need hardly

zay

that

the document was never in question before

the

jury

Circular.

Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 26th January 1858.

His Excellency the Governor is plased to direct that the following rules, defining the functions of the Colonial Secretary, be circulated for the information and guidance of Officers of the Colonial Government:

1.

That

no

all

official communication, of any description whatsoever, is to be addressed

by any

member of the Government to His Excellency the Governor, except- through the bolonial Secretary.

That the Colonial Secretary is the organ

through whom the official instructions Government

are

to

be communicated, and

that; except in matters

the

of

of daily routine, the

various departments are authority

as

the

subject to his

organ of the Government: 2 that before submitting any official document to His Excellency the Governor, it is the duty of the Colonial Secretary to satisfy himself that the document in question is of a proper nature for

the

the supreme power; and should

notice

of he entertain

any

doubts

on

this

Rcore,

the Secretary is authorized to remit the document in question for correction, and, in extremne cases, to decline altogether to submit it recording.

reasons for so doing.

4.

every

his

document submitted to

be

That His Excellency the Governor

may

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observed on by the Secretary, for the information of His Exxcellency; and that the former is expected to point out anything in such