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would, notwithstanding, allow me the Compensation for abolition of my office for which I had applied. These facts were fully explained by me, in my Letter of 7 resigning office, Copy attached (Enclosure M), and acknowledged, with a tribute to my Services and a promise of future employment, in the Official Letter Accepting my resignation (Enclosure 8).
The circumstances under which I then left Government Service can almost be termed Compulsory; the initiative being taken by Government, not by Myself, when coupled with the facts that the vacancy was not filled up, and that I did not receive the Compensation applied for, it cannot reasonably be classed in the Same Category with a voluntary resignation of Office, debarring the resigner from all claims for prior actual service.
Under all the circumstances which I have had the honor to refer to, I beg most humbly to submit that Service is not to be computed by months and years; that I consider myself justified without presumption, in appealing to the testimony of Governors Davis, Bonham, and ... all now in England, whether my Services have not in real value to Government, equalled if not outweighed the services of most other officers of my standing, during twice or thrice the term of years of my service, having never spared