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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
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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
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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.