CO129-565-9 Amendment to Letters Patent relating to Governor and Commander-in-Chief 5-10-1937 - 9-5-1938 — Page 3

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to carry out the amendments I have

suggested above at we should

endeavour to tidy up the Instructions,

i.e. revoke all the Additional

Instructions and consolidate all the

amendments in the Instrument now to be

issued.

hall

If this is to be done we

She then have only the original

Instructions of 1917 and the new

Instrument, and this will be more

convenient from all points of view. With

this end in view I have drawn up the attached

Additional Instructions.

It revokes

all previous Additional Instructions and

Clause 33 of the Tastructions of 1917

and replaces Clause 2, 5, 13, 14, 16, 20

and 32 of the 1917 Instructions.

The

following is the explanation of the new

Clauses.

Clause 2.

The first paragraph is the

existing provision as it now appears

in the Additional Instructions of the 15th of

November, 1928 with the word "Treasurer"

altered to Financial Secretary.

I think

the words "Lieutenant-Governor of the

Colony if any" could be omitted.

The

other

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