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Anggestion I withdrew my application.
I have borne this summer better than I expected, but within the last ten days my health, after the usual manner of the Climate, has given way, as will be seen from the enclosed certificate.
I am of course aware that two of the Heads of Departments are likely to make shortly a similar application but from what I understood of your Excellency's wishes and intentions on the occasion of my application in June last, to which I have just referred, no inconvenience will accrue to the public service, as an efficient officer will be on the spot to undertake the duties of Colonial Secretary.
At the same time the two Gentlemen to whom I allude, the Surveyor General and the Colonial Treasurer have higher claims to leave of absence than I, but I must be permitted to add that they, I believe, are prepared to submit propositions for the satisfactory conduct of their duties, and this without interfering with the arrangement which I presume your Excellency would make for the fulfilment of the duties of the Secretary to Government.
As regards private Affairs, which, more than my health, I urged in June last, it is as important to use now as it was then to visit Great Britain, and will be even more important on receipt of a reply from the Colonial office.
While therefore I again refer to the Medical Certificate I have enclosed, I call attention to the fact that I have gone through four summers in the second term of a residence of ...