CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3] — Page 61

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Hongkong.

My Lord,

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Rec 17 FEB 10,

Government House,

Hongkong, 12th.January,1910.

I have the honour to inform Your

Lordship that at the last meeting of Executive Council on

the 5th. instant it was the unanimous opinion of the

Members that it was unnecessary that all cases of the grant

of half-pay leave should be referred to the Council for

advice and that I concur in this view.

2.

I am unable to find any instruct-

-ion or Colonial Office Regulation requiring the opinion

of Executive Council to be taken on applications for half-

-pay leave, but as the certificate in Appendix 3 to the

Colonial Office Regulations recites that "the Governor,

with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of

Government,

has granted" the leave, all applications of

the kind have hitherto been referred to the Council as a

matter of routine. I should, of course, always refer to

the Council any case in which the grant of leave to an

Officer

E RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF CREWE,

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