78

that

anny

arise

vacancies

Coling generally, to the impossibility of supplying on the

on the spot temporary

from the absence of any of the service

from ill health, and to the "distance of the Colony from the mother country, but Your Lordship may fully depend on my being thoroughly satisfied

of its absolute necessity, before I fill up

a

whenever

vacancy,

any may

occur.

In

my

Despatch above alluded

debiting a part of the Governor's salary to the Diplomatic Department, and by

the salaries of the Colonial

reducing

Secretary and Judicial Officers

occur

as vacancies.

I have the honor to be,

With the highest respect,

Your Lordship's

Most Obedient,

Humble Servants

Graham

to I stated that as vacancies occurred,

properly be made

reductions might very properly

in some

of the salaries attached to certain in the Colony; and should

offices in the Colony;

the offices referred to become vacant,

any

shall not fail, pending Your Lordship's instructions, to carry into effect the principle that I have considered it my duty

to advocate.

The principal reductions, however, I again repeat, can only be effected by

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