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ceremony of the Kind on the Queen's Birthday;
but of
day
be
course if
more
any
other hour
on
that
agreeable to Your Excellency
I shall be most
happy to meet your
Excellency's wishes in that respect.
H.
pists Pensionantios
my
to
The question Your Exelleney
me
was in fact answered by
law adviser and myself at the
Council Table, when reading from the
and the Queen's Regulations,
Colonial Regulations for the Army
which
are identical
on this matter. It is
hardly necessary to repeat that the
Queen has not specially
invested
me
with the command of Her Majesty's
Regular Forces in this Colony; the
carefully limited authority
that, as
Governor and Commander in Chief, I
have the power of exercising
over
Your
Excellency in giving if necessary
certain well defined instructions is accurately prescribed in the Queen's Regulations and in no
in no degree
diminishes the actual command over
the troops which the Senior Military Officer, for the time being,
exercises.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your Excellency's Most Obedient dervant, (signed) I. Pope Hennessy, Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
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