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3.) 
CHAPTER IV.—CORRESPONDENCE. 
A. Colonial Office. 
163. Governors must address the Secretary of State 
for the Colonies in all correspondence with His 
Majesty's Government. Every such communication, 
therefore, to whatever public department in this 
country it may more immediately relate, must be 
addressed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 
with the exceptions mentioned in Regulations 181 to 
195. 
164. Despatches are classified and should be dealt 
with as follows -— 
(1) Numbered despatches which the Governor 
is to lay before the Executive Council, unless 
there be some special reason to the contrary, 
which should be reported to the Secretary of 
State in a confidential despatch. Such despatches 
may be published unless express directions are 
given to the contrary, but enclosures consisting 
of correspondence with a Government Depart- 
ment in the United Kingdom should not be pub- 
lished without prior reference to the Secretary 
of State. Despatches which for local purposes 
are to be treated temporarily as confidential should 
be marked ‘‘ Reserved ”’ after the number. GCir- 
cular despatches and despatches from the Secretary 
of State marked ‘‘ Accounts,” ¢* Honours,” or 
‘ Miscellaneous,” are to be treated in all respects 
as numbered despatches, unless also marked 
** Confidential ** or ** Secret.” 
(2) Formal Correspondence, such as schedules 
and records of telegrams, which should not be 
numbered. 
(3) Confidential despatches which the Governor 
may, if he thinks fit, communicate under the 
obligation of confidence to the Kxecutive