In most cases, after letterbooks were dispensed with (see under GO25), inward despatches to which the Governor replied have a copy of the outward despatch filed with them (GO1, 4, 5, 9, 16); in cases where the Governor initiated the correspondence, the copy of the despatch is often to be found in this series, which included both numbered and secret and confidential despatches in the form of type-written carbon copies. Enclosures are usually present. Many despatches are telegraphic, and are therefore in code.

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