expedient to abolish economy of the Public Service it may be deemed to allow to Incumbents of Offices, which for the and without that compensation, which it is usual responsible Office, without a single moment's warning Her Majesty's most faithful Servants, who at present stand dismissed from
One of Her Lordship will not sanction an act of injustice to begs to annex; and he feels confident that your to your Lordship in August 1847 (extract of which he sent herewith for your Lordship's inspection.
In through the simple performance of his duties, the criminal charges to which your Lordship concurs, and dismissal from the Public Service, as an act of course will look upon his abrupt removal as a severe measure here, and that he may be thus enabled to continue in the faithful Service of this Colony, trusts that some situation may be provided for him. It is a characteristic of your Lordship's justice to the humblest Individual, which every Petitioner relying on that impartiality and wish arising out of
an Act previously on the express understanding that when the Engineering works were completed, the Office of Book Keeper would be abolished, and his services no longer required
Your Lordship's Petitioner, from the fact of being Senior to every one in the Surveyor General's Department, and having always performed his duties to the satisfaction of those above him, naturally concluded that the amalgamated Offices would be his as a matter of course, in accordance with the published regulations of the Colonial Civil Service, and that if the suspension was ultimately disapproved by Her Majesty's Government he would be treated altogether as though that suspension had never occurred, and that he should receive full pay of the amalgamated Offices up to the time when the pleasure of Her Majesty's Government would be made known.
He considered to be the spirit and intention of the Service, and borne out in furtherance of the regulations regarding the amalgamation of Offices. The receipts for fees, taken at the "Colonial Treasury" expressly state that such receipts are issued from the Deed Registry Office, and these requisitions are invariably signed by the Person performing the duties of Clerk of Deed Registry, as exhibited on the Receipts sent.