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183. In the event of actual hostilities with any
foreign enemy, or of any extraordinary employment
of the troops for the maintenance of the public peace,
such occurrences must be reported both to the Secretary
 of State for War and to the Secretary of State for
the Colonies.

184. In the event of its being thought necessary to
make or to advise any military convention with the
officer in command of the troops of any foreign Power,
a Governor commanding His Majesty’s troops will at
the same time report to the Secretary of State for the
Colonies and to the Secretary of State for War the
measures which he may have so taken, or those which
he may wish to recommend for adoption.

185. In case it should be necessary, in order to
render the Governor’s military reports clear, to make
reference, in his correspondence with the Secretary of
State for War, to questions connected with his civil
authority, he will in every such case at the same time
bring such questions under the notice of the Secretary
of State for the Colonies.

186. As any attempt to define the limits of a
Governor's civil and military correspondence may,
from the nature of the case, be imperfect and may
omit to provide for some unforeseen exigency, he will
best meet the requirements of the Secretary of State
for War and of the Secretary of State for the Colonies
by conducting his civil correspondence exactly as he
would conduct it if he possessed no military command,
and vice versa. The two functions of Governor and of
Commander of the Forces, though for the time combined
 in the same person, should be regarded in this
fespect as entirely separate, and the reports made by
the Governor in each capacity should be made pre-Cisely
 in the same manner as if that combination of
functions did not exist.