about £200 per
* out of this ar
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would have had to pay
- cum for office and estive Assestance bands this wear Statect 6 of £600 Memorialist Calculated that he
bency Sir John Bowring
hope of assistance from that quarter
laws a week so that I can entertain little
Two di Bous
hammaste
I must therefore mostles.
pectfully beg you to move.
his Excellency to Simplify
My duties and to enlarge my means to a scales in
no
What I feel to be absolutely necessary for my own expenses and the uncials Standard of official Salaries some degree Commensurate with
waschen.
And the due performance of public duty is the provision
on
the part of Government of at least
£600 per
clerk. To u
wherease in
addition
one
effeacent
of the charpe own Salary to
my own
* aut to relieve me
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Require Considerable economy to maintain myself.
means I am advised and believe it wills
to my partials simplification of my duties and addition and desponsibility of the Sails. Even with this
and my
am.
would be still required of me have the Honn utmost energies duly to discharge what
Colonial Secretary
W. T. Mercer
Pintle
to be
James John Hickson
You obed. Sawant
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Copy Letter to M. Mercer, Colonial Secretary te Victores 27 Ael2 1857
Having stated at:
stated at length the Cerccumstanes
Ler.
in which I find myself placed here in my letter of the 231 ultimo addressed to his Excellency Shu
Bouring And the utter inadequacy of my Salary to meet my necessary expenses in the discharge=
of my cinite de duties and to Support myself, and His Excellency having stated his inability to comply with my application for the increase of Jalanny remuneration which I find tote acturally. sary for my Support . I beg you will requent of His Excelleway to accept my resignation of the officer which Sholda from the date
Communication
qui
meeesr
of this
In addition to the curciinstances
stated in my letter of the 31 ultions and although they
form the man and important causes of my inability
Any longer to hold my appointments with Justicet myself or to the public Service. I must now repeat what I stated at the interview with which ettis
red me upon last Saturday, namely,
Excellency honored the extreme difficulty, of holding official intercourse with Her Majestys Attorney Generals and his very irritating and offensively dictatorial, demean mard languages towards me while sions all my energies to the faithful discharge
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