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a position, that a small allowance in the shape of a pension is so much a necessity, should my life be prolonged, that I deemed it equally hard to sacrifice my life in a climate that is rapidly accelerating the progress of two chronic diseases, or to suffer want and sickness combined, for perhaps some years at Home.
I should have adhered to this resolution if it had been compatible with the efficient performance of my duties, but now, after a hard struggle and relapse into a state of great bodily prostration, I find that it is impossible for me to do my work, and that I am in daily danger of a total breakdown and confinement to bed, involving certain injury to the Public Service.
Being so situated, I have no alternative but to enclose the certificate of Acting Colonial Surgeon, Austin and Doctor have, and in accordance with