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Council. No confidential despatch, either to or 
from the Secretary of State, may be made public 
without his permission. The Secretary of State 
will only publish such despatches if he considers 
it desirable in the public interest, and will as a 
rule consult the Governor before so doing. 
Numbered despatches marked ‘“ Reserved *’ will 
be treated as confidential for a period of six 
months from the date of the despatch. 
(4) Secret despatches, the contents of which 
the Governor is forbidden to communicate to any 
one without express authority from the Secretary 
of State. 
165. Whenever it may be found necessary to address 
the Secretary of State confidentially the communica- 
tion should be marked ‘‘ Confidential ’’; but care 
must be taken that the series of numbered despatches 
shall contain a full report of all important transactions 
in the Colony; so that, should Parliament call for 
information as to any of these transactions, a con- 
nected and complete account of what has taken place 
may be afforded by such despatches without adding 
those which are *‘ Confidential.”” No reference to a 
confidential despatch should ever be made in a 
numbered despatch. 
166. The Governor will cause the Secretary of 
State’s despatches addressed to himself, as well as 
copies of his own addressed to the Secretary of State, 
whether confidential or not, to be deposited in the 
Secretariat or other recognised office of record in the 
Colony or in some other safe building belonging to the 
Government. The Governor must satisfy himself 
that proper arrangements are made for the custody of 
secret despatches. Any secret despatch which he 
considers it necessary to retain in his own custody 
must be handed by him personally to his successor.