2A 18 as i 0 dd a OT vy nf yf f 1- x‘ 1f vt oe Ly 3, & f NN i N Q v] oy exclusive of entertainment or duty allowance; for a period not exceeding six weeks in any one year. The officer administering the government is entitled in the absence of the Governor from the Colony to draw in {ull any allowance provided for entertainment and also any duty allowance. 64. If the period of a vacancy or of the absence of the Governor should exceed nine months, and there should be any salary available, the Secretary of State will approve such arrangements as may appear reason- able for the increase of the salary of the temporary holder for the period of excess. 65. On appointment to a Government, half salary when available will be allowed as a general rule from the date of embarkation from England or a Colony. An officer succeeding to the administration of a Colonial Government will be entitled to be paid in respect of the day on which he assumes the adminis- tration. The officer whom he succeeds will not be :ntitled to any payment for that day in respect of the rvdministration of the Government. 66. If a Governor is transferred from one Colony to another and comes to England on his way thereto, he will, if the Secretary of State is satisfied that such teturn is unavoidable or in furtherance of the public interest, usually receive the half salary of the Govern- ment which he relinquishes, until the date of his embarkation from England for the Government to which he is appointed ; but if such half salary is not available he will usually receive the half salary of the new Government. If no half salary is available from sither Government, he can receive no salary. E. Passages of Governors. 67. The following is the scale of allowances granted from Imperial funds to Governors where appointed