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consult with the Governor of the Colony from which 
the troops are sent, and will incur a special 
responsibility if he sends them away without the 
Governor’s consent, except under special instructions 
from His Majesty’s Government. 
10. For the purposes of Regulations 5 to 9, Colonies 
comprised under one government-in-chief are to be 
regarded as a single Colony. 
11. The Governor has no authority over the move- 
ments of His Majesty’s ships, and is not entitled to 
issue orders to officers of the Royal Navy. But, it 
being a general obligation on all His Majesty's civil 
and military officers to afford mutual assistance to each 
other in cases affecting the King’s service, the Com- 
mander-in-Chief of a station or the senior officer pre- 
sent at a port is instructed in the King’s Regulations 
for the Navy to pay due regard to such requisitions 
as he may receive from the Governor, having for their 
object the protection of His Majesty’s possessions, the 
benefit of the trade of his subjects. or the general good 
of his service. 
12. In urgent cases, when the requisitions may con- 
flict with the instructions from the superior naval 
authority under which he is acting and when reference 
by. telegraph or otherwise to such superior authority 
is impracticable, a naval officer is instructed to con- 
sider the relative importance and urgency of the 
required service ag compared with his instructions, 
whether general or special; and he is to decide as in 
his judgment may seem best for His Majesty's service. 
In so doing he is instructed to bear in mind the grave 
responsibility that would rest on him if the cireum- 
stances were not such as fully to warrant: the post- 
ponement of the instructions from his naval superior 
to the more pressing requisition from the Governor. 
13. In cases where high political considerations 
demand the decision of His Majestv’'s Government in