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a

consult with the Governor of the Colony from which
the troops are sent, and will incur a special
responsibility if he sends them away without the
Governor’s consent, except under special instructions
from His Majesty’s Government.
10. For the purposes of Regulations 5 to 9, Colonies
comprised under one government-in-chief are to be
regarded as a single Colony.
11. The Governor has no authority over the movements
 of His Majesty’s ships, and is not entitled to
issue orders to officers of the Royal Navy. But, it
being a general obligation on all His Majesty's civil
and military officers to afford mutual assistance to each
other in cases affecting the King’s service, the Commander-in-Chief
 of a station or the senior officer present
 at a port is instructed in the King’s Regulations
for the Navy to pay due regard to such requisitions
as he may receive from the Governor, having for their
object the protection of His Majesty’s possessions, the
benefit of the trade of his subjects. or the general good
of his service.
12. In urgent cases, when the requisitions may conflict
 with the instructions from the superior naval
authority under which he is acting and when reference
by. telegraph or otherwise to such superior authority
is impracticable, a naval officer is instructed to consider
 the relative importance and urgency of the
required service ag compared with his instructions,
whether general or special; and he is to decide as in
his judgment may seem best for His Majesty's service.
In so doing he is instructed to bear in mind the grave
responsibility that would rest on him if the cireumstances
 were not such as fully to warrant: the postponement
 of the instructions from his naval superior
to the more pressing requisition from the Governor.
13. In cases where high political considerations
demand the decision of His Majestv’'s Government in