器
This is, fir, the first application
of
pecuniary
nature that I
have preferred since I entered
Her Majesty's Service in January
1837
and I humbly hope I shall not be disappointed by
it's reception
at Your
pray,
hands.
Fir, that in
consideration of that length
of Service personal addition
a
of £100 per
made
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to my Salary
L
may
as
Chief
Clerk and Keeper of Records in the Colonial Secretary's Office,
commencing from the 1th January of the zurent Year; and that from the same date my Pay of fork of Councils
may
be raised to £200 per
annum
?
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I conclude this prayer
by respectfully reminding you
that
my
fitness for the Public Service has been acknowledged
by two of Your Predecessors:_ jotly, the Right Honorable The Earl Grey, whe, on the 13th March 1847, confirmed
in the confidential Office of Clark of the Executive and Legislative Councils of this Colony, for which Governor Sir John Davis had
me
selected me
in Desember
Indly
18.46; and ously, His Space
The Duke of Newcastle,
the 15th February
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on
1854, proposed
me
for the
post of Colonial Secretary of Hongkong. _ His Grace