submit to a
higher
and
amount of deduction; if I could possibly manage to maintain myself, and family in this expensive place upon the balance of my salary after the further deduction of $70 per month, which,
I am still under
engagement to pay on account of a debt incurred previous to my rejoining
the service in 1856.
With reference to the last paragraph of your
letter in which
I am informed me that the Colonial Treasurer has
been directed to make no
further payment of salary to me until further
orders, I can
only trust that His Excellency may,
after
a re-consideration
of the circumstances
under which this loss
arose, and the fact of my
possessing
no other
pecuniary resources,
see fit to relax the severity of the order issued to the Colonial Treasurer.
If it is expected that