Pay
thing
Cover.
my Expenses - Owing
to the enhanced cost of every
in the Colony from House rent which I am now forced to pay (for which I am
more than one fourth
to pay
of my pay to the necessaries
of life which are three times
the price they
were.
I beg to observe.
In addition my predecessor
was allowed $450
for salary of £750 per
Annum
though at that time the duties of the Office
were not as arduous as
they now are,—
the population being nearly double what it then was, and
as I before mentioned, Expenses
of every kind enormously increased.
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I beg to state that after nearly fourteen years service, I make this application with a reluctance that nothing but the imperative necessity of the case could induce me to overcome.
In conclusion I state my
view.
Trusting His Excellency
will view my application favorably and recommend it's being granted from the date hereof.
I have &c.
(Signed) W. H. Alexander, Registrar,
True
Copy
Colonial Secretary's.