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236 In April 1851. 8b is Grace The Duke of
extension of my New custte granted Absence from Me an the dutiet Leave of of my Office of Registrar of
The Supreme Court of Hongkong, on condition that I = any Salary after the expiration should cease to draw of my former Leave, and that, obould the state of my health at the termination of the additional leave not be such as to enable me to return to Hongkong, I should resign the Appointment I hold in theat Colony.
As there seems no hope that my health urte encelle a state as to enable me to expose myself again to a Tropical Climate with safety, it now becomes my painful duty to resign my Appointment into your hands.
As this step leaves me with health broken in the service of Government by a suive years residence sin an unhealthy climate, with means totatty inadequate for the support of nine obuildren, who lost their Mother by Hongkong fever, I turn to Right Show! "Ibevry Labouchere Secretary for the Colonies and wirth all hopes of being able to prosecute