ver
rank, whether on the active or retired lists, should communicate with
and obtain their cards from the Colonial Office, Whitehall.

Similarly, all gentlemen connected with the Foreign Office, the Home
Office, officials connected with the Houses of Parliament, or any
Government department, should communicate with and obtain their cards
for attendance or presentation at levees from the department under which
they serve.

Judges, law officers, King's Counsel, and all legal officials holding
appointments under the Crown are requested to make their applications
through the secretary to the Lord Chancellor.

Peers, bishops, Lords-Lieutenants of Counties, Members of Parliament,
clergy of all denominations, and all gentlemen, other than the
above-mentioned, should communicate with the Lord Chamberlain at St.
James's Palace, when they will each be furnished with a card of
admission for use at the levee.

The names both for attendance and presentation must be received at the
various offices above indicated not later than eight days prior to the
date of each levee, but in the case of officers, who make application to
the War Office, fourteen days before the date of each levee.

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=When a Gentleman makes a Presentation= it is compulsory for him to
attend the same levee as the person whom he presents, and the card of
presentation is sent to him to be forwarded to the person to be
presented.

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=A Gentleman on being presented= should bow to the King, and His Majesty
will bow to him in return. Gentlemen attending a levee should also bow
to His Majesty.

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=Gentlemen who have been presented= at a levee have the privilege of
writing their names in His Majesty's visiting book at Buckingham Palace
once during the season. The hours of calling for this purpose are
generally from three to five o'clock in the afternoon.

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=The Dress to be worn at Courts, State Functions and Levees.=--Full
dress uniform is invariably worn by all gentlemen entitled to wear it.
All officers of Scottish kilted corps should wear the kilt irrespective
of their being mounted officers or not. Gentlemen who do not wear
uniform may wear either velvet Court dress, new style; velvet Court
dress, old style; cloth Court dress.

The new style velvet Court dress is of black silk velvet. The body o