of service as far as regards the clase rating prescribed by the let
Parliament to commence from
of
that rate, and that I be permitted
within four years by paying up
arrears
of subscription to take a
rating corresponding to my
Service.
Lave
twelve
actual
My age is fifty-one, and I
served Her Majesty nearly
years in Houshong, having perviously served as Chief officer of the Honorable Company's Steamer Nemesis of or the space of 18 months, the latter half of which I was acting with the fleet during all the operations in the Canton River.._
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I am
am nie
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of the oldest officials in the
Colony - had to live the first year of
my appointment in a heat-shed exposed to the vicissitudes
f
the
climate, winter and Summer
I joined the
-
the service in the latter and
of July 1841- In the
Year 1847, it was announced that by paying up arren,
then in the service might
Officers
at their option place themselves in the same forting with civil Sewants in England - I declined the
Offer: as a Naval Officer holding Lieutenant's Commission, I conceived
Ch
the
I could not participate in the benefits to be conferred by Act. Upon
this point I have