and I sincerely trust that His Excellency will afford the request I have therein made the benefit of his powerful support. I have, &c.,
(Signed) L. d'Almada e Castro,
Clerk of Council, and Chief Clerk and Keeper of Records in the Colonial Secretary's Office.
True Copy
Joaquim
Castro,
External Secretary.
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For Agent
Iwas
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Memorandum. For 107. I was born at Macao of Portuguese Parents. My Father, a native of Lisbon, was Colonel of Artillery in the Portuguese Service. On the 7th January, 1844, I entered Her Majesty's Service in the Office of the Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, at Macao, under Rear-Admiral (then Captain) Elliot, the present Governor of Trinidad. On the 26th June 1845, on the ratification of the Exchange of the Ratifications of the Treaty of Peace with China and the erection of the island of Hongkong into a British Colony, Sir Henry Pottinger removed me from the Superintendency to the Colonial Department, giving me several appointments which I still hold, that of Chief Clerk and Keeper of Records...