provisionally filling the
situation was
in receipt
of full Salary, and
that there was
therefore no
no means of
paying him / D. Morrison/ the moiety promised
him.
Lord Grey
that the
Considering
officer whom he had appointed had a positive claim to half Salary from the date of
embarkation, instructed the Governor to recover repayment from W: Young observing that two Officers could not draw the same
at
Salary
the same time. It
appears
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appears, however, from the accompanying recent Despatch from Governor Bonham, that W. Young declines to refund
the sum demanded
of him,
and
Lord
Grey thinks that the engagement made with him by Sir John Davis will, in point of fact, render it impossible
to recover the money
at all from W. Young.
Under these circumstances
Lord Grey
is constrained
to admit that a
double payment must in this instance be
made