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(b) An Administrator will pay the first visit tc
all Flag Officers or Commodores, but will receive
the first visit in all other cages.
149. Return visits must be paid within 24 hours.
(a) A Governor will return visits in person tc
all Flag Officers and Commodores.
(b) An Administrator will do so in person tc
all Captains.
(¢) A Flag Officer or Commodore will do so in
person to ali Administrators.
(@) In all other cases the return visit will be
paid by an Aide-de-Camp or other officer deputed.
150. Should the Governor or Administrator find that
from indisposition or pressure of important business
he is unable to return or pay a visit in person, he will
depute his Aide-de-Camp or some other officer to do
so. In like manner should a Flag Officer or Com-
modore from indisposition or pressing occupation be
precluded from paying or returning a visit, he will
depute his Flag-Iieutenant or other officer not below
that rank to do so. In each case the officer failing to
pay the required visit in person will report the circum-
stance, and the reasons which led to the omission, to
the Department under which he is acting.
151. Officers acting temporarily in higher civil
offices or commands will, in respect of these visits, be
upon the same footing as if they were confirmed in
such offices or commands.
152. The senior naval officer present will arrange,
when necessary, to provide suitable boats to enable
Governors or Administrators to pay any official visits
afloat on their notifying their wishes to that effect.
158. For the purpose of Regulations 147 to 152 :—
(a) the status of the British Resident, Zanzibar.
is that of a Governor