undertaking the offices of Deputy Sheriff.
respectfully submitted that M. May possesses advantages in : Commodation and assistants already at his control, it is
Assistants pay all expense himself; with such free being provided with ample office accommodation and
and
by Coroner. which
Memorialist, who, in, with only, did not exist, but were refused, in the case
a
fact, was
required to discharge the
required
Salary of but £300 per
onerous duties of 3 important departments
au num.
as such assistance and accommodation
and unfurnished with any office.
own
unaided.
our
duty could be obtained. accommodation save so far
by Clerks or Bailiffs
in the Colony upon
with your memorialist came directly directs your particular
5
which your Official salary, a state of circumstances to
entire of his by the appropriation (as heretofore shown / of, at the least, the
attention;
An Ame
which he was placed, pending
remaining in
found that his remarks hope of such application being successful,
- dant of the observations of Lie John Bowring discouraging any Official duties - could have been ascertained, but that--independently granting of a public office and assistants - or a lessening of
- :lioration of position by either an increase of Salary - the
(of an application to the Home Government
the result of a his most earnest desire to have retained his appointment until Your memorialist begs leave to state that it would have been
Home Government,
Stance
lea
Memorialist.
the decision of the the Colony under the circum:
you
him, even supposing that Credit under his circumstances less than £5 per week in excess of his Queme, thus placing. government, could only have been done at a cost of not
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was desirable or could be procured, in a position of Debt & difficulty:
Your Memorialist begs leave to refer to the letters appended hereto, more particularly to those of Dr Bridges (the present acting Colonial Secretary) of MW. Kingsmill (the present acting Attorney General) and of Dr Jack (your theme -
: rialist's medical adviser) in proof of the extreme difficulties attending his position, and of the impossibility of his continuing unaided to discharge the several duties imposed upon him, as well as in proof of his not having resigned the post to which you were to
pleased. & appoint him either hastily or inconsiderately;
rym
Your Memorialist begs respectfully & state that, unwilling to embarrass the Government, he continued to discharge the duties of the Offices he had held for some time after his resignation had been accepted, and in proof of the sympathy generally felt in the Colony for your Memorialist's untenable position, he begs leave to refer you to the letters from several persons appended hereto, and to state the fact that a free passage to England entirely unsolicited, was placed at his disposal on the part- of the Community, a testimony - your Memorialist respectfully submits - not only to his having endeavoured to perform his several duties satisfactorily, but to his having been considered by the community generally as placed in a position to which
he should not have been reduced;
Your Memorialist would respectfully beg leave to- impress upon you that in resigning his appointment and leaving Hong Kong, he was compelled to such a
was compelled to such a step not by the
weighty duties - onerous as they were - which he had to perform but by the fact of his having to discharge such upon a Salary: not adequate for Official expenses, and consequently leaving
your memorialist nothing whatever wherewith to provide
for his own support:
Your Memorialist, in conclusion, earnestly prays
you attention to the circumstance embodied in the preceding
Memorial, and hopefully trusts that, upon taking into your favourable consideration - the unexpected difficulties of your Memorialist's position - the fact of his having endeavoured faithfully and conscientiously to discharge the several duties imposed upon him so long as he possibly could - the circumstance of his having been sent to so distant a Colony as Hong Kong and necessarily heavy expense for outfit - the unavoidable disarrangement of his family affairs during his absence from this Country - the fact of his health having suffered from labour and anxiety of mind while in the Colony, and during the long voyage home occupying seven months - you will be pleased to direct such Compensation as you may consider due and fitting to be made to your Memorialist, either in money from the funds of the Colony of Hong Kong or else by granting your Memorialist some other suitable appointment in any one of the Colonies, to the discharge of the duties of which your Memorialist begs leave to state he will always endeavour to bring the utmost zeal discretion and attention within his power to exhibit; and your Memorialist trusts that he will not be considered presumptuous in here, most respectfully intimating that, having a family dependant
upon
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