3G4 PPvOOEEDIXGS OF SECTIOX E. 



4. I shall be glad if you will suggest to your Ministers tlie- 

 desirability of their treating all applications for the search of" 

 Colonial records in general accordance with the above rules; 

 and if you will yourself follow the above principles in the case 

 of any correspondence which is vxnder your own custody, as having 

 been originally of a confidential character, but which appears to 

 you, from the lapse of time^ to have ceased to be confidential. 



I have the honour to bs, 

 Sir, 

 Your most obedient humble Servant, 



CKEWE. 



The Officer administering the Government, 



South Australia. 



Eegulations for Governing the Use of Duplicate Government 

 House Despatches Transferred to the Public Library of 

 South Australia. 



The Board having undertaken that the duplicate Government 

 House Despatches exchanged between the Secretary of State for 

 the Colonies and the Governor of South Australia for the time 

 being which have been transferred from Government House to the 

 Public Library shall be accessible only to bond fide students 

 engaged upon original historical research, the Board hereby 

 approves the following regulations for controlling the use of such 

 Despatches: — 



JRegidations. 



I. That all Despatches fi-om the Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies to the Governor of South Australia, and from the 

 Governor of South Australia to the Secretary of State for the 

 Colonies, for the years 1837 to 1855, which shall have been 

 deposited in the Public Library of South Australia shall be kept 

 in the strong-room of the Public Library building. 



II. There shall be only two keys of the strong-room in the 

 Public Library building, one of which shall be in the custody of 

 the General Secretary and one in the custody of the Librarian. 



III. Every applicant for permission to refer to such Despatches 

 shall fill in and sign an application foi*m, which shall indicate his 

 full Christian and surnames, his age, occupation, and address. It 

 shall also explain his object in desiring to refer to such Despatches, 

 and in what way he proposes to use the information so obtained. 



