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sized with dysentery), and less then three months I had to send them home at a cost of £110, my own passage cost me £80, and have lost four years service bound to:
appeeno by the Dod que agreement, that I was not to draw the £150 on account Salary, but I had the Governor's sanction to leave the Colony.
Signed) Triple Billete 12.
(Copy)
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongky, 16th March 1858.
To His Excellency the Governor.
Sir,
I have the honor to forward for your consideration the enclosed letter from Mr. Clarke of Worthy Hendering, the late Clerk of Public Works, tendering his resignation.
Mr. Niblett Burnie, the late Clerk, has worked under my instructions and, while expressing every desire to perform his duties as efficiently as any predecessor, stated how impossible he found it to comply with the requirements required from the state of his health, and inability to take the exercise demanded by the daily inspection of Public Works, frequently at a considerable distance apart.
Under these circumstances, I trust Your Excellency may be pleased to sanction Mr. Billete's request.
Signed) Charles B. Hillier, Colonial Secretary.
Surveyor General's Office,
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Signed) Charks B Jorge Cleverly, Surveyor General.