to; vide
ation to the Home Government to cause a revision of the Rule referred Chapter 4 of the Colonial Regulations,
I may be permitted to observed
that
an exception might be made in faver of this Colony, from the fact of its being
Inoze
than
distant
any
+ from
the mother
other portion of Her
dominions, and where the
country
Her Majesty's
and tear
wear an
of constitution to a European is infinitely greater, with few exceptions, than
in
any
other frown Colony. The accompanying tables have been prepared with a view of showing the excumber of Civil servants who have died, and been compelled to go from hence on sick leave, in search of health, since the formation of the Colony, doubt that, compared with other British possessions, Hongkong will be found the most prejudicial to the health of Her Majesty's servants.
and I have
no
1
a-
2
similar
If this
footing
service was
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placed upon
with either the Ordnance
Military Department, as regards levered of absence after
residence in I
a certain period of
Hongkong, obtainable at
the option of the Civil servants, and in all cases where such leave) is compulsory, ( from sickness), the passage money of the
party paid by the Government, such
indulgence would be hailed
the
· greatest could confer
servants,
as ond
of
boons which the Crown
ow
it's
faithful and loyal
There is another point to which
I would pray Your Excellency's attention, and that is the superior advantages
in the sister service, working
enjoyed
under the samè
roof with the officers
of the Colony ; namely the Foreign Department, all of whome
by
the
aro
entitted
:regulations of that service to