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t
may
be entertained by the Honble the Major
General Commanding and His bxcellency the
Governor in communication, with the Right Homble the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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Having been appointed specially as Commanding Engineer in China, with an army
the field in
in
( in that command I have not made
the pecuniary remuneration of my employment
an
object of alter
- of attention or of interest ; and in endeavouring to apply my
services,
usefully
in
the General Engineer duties of this Colony whether Military Colonial or Naval I have implied such
to have been my
- my duty, under the exigencies of these services and Lord Stanley's instructions.
And now under the Master General and
Board's opinion, and under the opinion of the Srepector General of Fortifications, I beg very - respectfully to state, I shall be thankful either for myself or successors, to accept any remuneration that may be offered to me, for myself under
any
£
197
20 Jan 3 1843.
30 Dec 1043.
22 Dec / 45. 798
6 Dec: 1845.
845
any decision, and for my successors under the consideration that in all probability they
will
on
not receive Indian allowances, but be paid #h: 5 new proposed scale of consolidated ailowances. Exclusive of my survey duties for the Colony, the first application made to me upon the Engineer Colonial duties on Lord Stanley's instructions
the 19th June 1844. "I have, de,
was on
[ Signed ) Edward Aldrich, Major
Come # W. & Sup? Trung +
1 Trusloppy!
Mami
dy
Off & Colonial Secretary .