23

have his application complied with without departing from the usual practice.

this request for compensation for

Comment and character might not think a dismissal) but that alleviation

severe

by this Office

not formally sanctioned until the of April 1849

There is no

doubt that Lord Grey

could have been communicated earlier if

thought necessary to do

and the arrival in the Colony of the Secretary of State's despatch confirming such Abolition.

the preceding

Lessons,

It appears to me

Mr Farrant can

therefore, the strongest scarcely

it had been

but. I see

20

why his abrupt approval of the abolition of the Office should have been separated from the rest

the question:

carry

I am satisfied that

much

to the Governor

much delay

Lord Grey's

occurred in

Guernsey Borka

in

that unless the

being granted

nearly

easy

various other reductions at

yet I know of

or

no similar instance either in

that Colony claiming salary for the interval between

elsewhere of the reduced officer

abrupt dismissal, which has in fact been resumed already

see 1585 (appears to be

749

rather more weight in it - but I rely

on Bonham's judgment, and perhaps

indulgence

shown to Tarrant, which he certainly

has not done,

I should doubt the propriety

of making this person's case a special favour.

I reserve these papers till your return from

not pressing.

P. 1 August/50.

as they

the intimation that this Office

was abolished.

are

I

agree

with it Blackwood. It does not

appear to me that this petition alters the case. No Borham.

Share This Page