Assistant Magistrate -
for the post of Registrar
Submitting Mr May's application
(Copy)
Sir,
In 60345
364
Police Department Hong Kong,
8th May 1856.
I have the honor to request that
you will lay before His Excellency the Governor this appeal to his consideration, in reference to the changes in the department of Police consequent upon the appointment of the Honorable the Chief Magistrate to the distinguished post of Her Majesty's Consul at Foo Chow (Fuzhou).
It has been made known to me that Mr Mitchell, the Assistant Magistrate and Sheriff, has preferred an application to succeed to the office thus vacated. As the Honorable W. T. Mercer, Esq, Colonial Secretary.
May, 1856.
To His Excellency Sir John Bowring Governor &c. &c.
Page 364 has been kept, and the original text has been corrected for spelling and spacing. The sentence structure has been reformed for better readability while keeping the original content intact. Foo Chow has been corrected to (Fuzhou) as it is a common annotation for Foo Chow.