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Chief secretary (British Empire)
Position in British colonial governments / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Chief Secretary (disambiguation).
Chief secretary was the title of a senior civil servant in various colonies of the British Empire. Prior to the dissolution of the colonies, the chief secretary was the second most important official in a colony of the British Empire after the Governor, typically termed the colonial secretary and often an office held by the premier or a similar politically elected minister, and with a portfolio which were equivalent to what was later termed the Home Secretary's office.
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