Admira
Agents
Foreig
Office
RECEIVES
JUNE16 2
1849-
.636.2.
In 5323/44
63
the Right Honble Sir George
Majesty's
Baronet Secretary of State
The humble Petition of Mary, Elizabeth Smithers of 21 James Terrace, the dwellers in the County of Middlesex
That
the boido co
of
your petitioner the late Thomas Smithers was Inspector of Police at
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That the said Thomas Smithers entered the Police force at its commencement in the month of May One thousand eight hundred and thirty and from his active services he was promoted to the rank of sergeant of the K Division on the thirteenth of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty
That on
the seventh day of October One Thousand eight hundred and forty-four the said Thomas Smithers proceeded to Her Majesty's Colony of Hong Kong, Inspector of Police having been recommended by the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police to the Colonial Secretary for such appointment and he commenced duty on the Twenty-first day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-five
That on the Thirty-first day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight the said Thomas Smithers was dispatched for a cruise round the Island of Hong Kong
on the Colonial Surgeon's recommendation that the Convalescent Policemen under charge of the said Thomas Smithers have the benefit of the change of air
That during the time the said Thomas Smithers was in discharge of his duty on expedition a violent typhoon arose and the said Thomas Smithers, his only son aged twenty years together with six other Englishmen were lost and your petitioner is deprived of her means of support for