a great confusion,
Office;
which
qwere viv az
promising me a good remuneration.
the
I accepted his offer, and with:
the
e greatest exertion and difficulties, without loss of time, I have succeeded to put the whole in due order, as it is proved
the Accounts for the Quarters ending by 30th September and 37th December, 1844, together with the annual Account,
t for the Year, the quarterly Accounts of 31
dane
the
March and 30 June of the present Year 1940.
In support of the stated confusion
in which the books
books of the Treasury
were at that
you will perhaps be aware that His Corseelling
time, you
the Governor had refused to issue further warrants
until all the Accounts
in arrears were -4-
brought up in due order.
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Mr. Martin did not given
than Sixty dollars per month as a
Salary which I was on the
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the point to refuse, if
my very limited circumstances, which long illness had brought me to, had not prevented me:
me by
a
During the time I was thus engaged,
liberal
offer a
had twice been made to
- by a Dutch Commercial House at + Macao, which I would have accepted,
had I not been entreated by Mr. Martin. not to abandon him in the middle of my work, and promising that I would have been appointed second bleak to the Treamy, which capacity was then and now held by Mr. Collins, who was on the eve of quitting it, but, alas! Mr Collins continued to be second Clerk, and I was compelled to work
on that scanty, remuneration of sixty dollars, which is less than any inferior bleck has in the Government employment, with which IS. am hardly able to provide the necessaries of life.
Salary
On