Crown Solicitor, Queen's Proctor, Coroner &c for the Colony, still under the Circumstances in which you are placed. I do not see that you had any moral possibility for you to remain in the Colony and support yourself on the very brittle Salary allowed by Government. Your duties could not be conscientiously performed without a Staff of assistants - at least one good clerk and an efficient bailiff. The salaries for which, with the rent of a proper office, would have entirely eaten up your salary or left you so small a margin that it would be absurd to think of supporting yourself upon it. The Clerks in our office had no alternative but to do so as it was ...
Ine European clerk and a Portuguese boy cost us £290 a year between them, and next year that must be increased. After an experience of some six years and upwards as a Solicitor, I find that a respectable position cannot be kept up under at least $120 a month, and even then, rigid economy must be practised. Your entire Salary only amounts to that sum! I am sure that you carry with you to England the good wishes not only of the Profession but of the Community in general, and wishing you a happy re-union with your family.
Believe me to remain, Your very faithful,
D. I. Stronken. S... James Brown. Bit Molay Pulle Fern of Gaskell Brown.
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"Deputy Sheriff, Coroner, and Proctor of detriments Services of M. S. J. Hickson, Crown Solicitor ... nished to learn that the Colony has lost the" I. I. Hickson _ "We are sorry but not asts = " From "The China Mail" "Resignation of M. "
"Attacked to the Memorial forwarded to M. Laboucher, Copies of Printed Extracts from Newspapers published at Hong Kong
"A year was ... "/
"we heard 'Solicitor, Proctor, Corner, and Deputy Sheriff' 'M. Hickson the recently arrived Crown'
From "The Friend of China". "to monopolise all the fattest Government offices 'Aliens who it would appear are soon likely' 'nations be it noted are by Englishmen not' 'employ on the Same grounds. Both these designations of another designation of Government - heard also of another les "pended in Office Contingencies alone. We have 'Above amount we are assured had beewer. in this Colony, more than two thirds of the' 'duties he had to perform And even to his Support utterly disproportionate to the Arduous : allowed him by Government and which £265 'ments was the total inadequacy of the Salary His principal reasons for designing the appoint - 'to himself and benefit to the Community - last and which offices he filled with Credit' ' & which he was gazetted so recently on December
"has tendered his designation on the ..."/