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interposed to
mys
further advancement
a to such bar existed when I entered the
service, clse I should not have entered it. My immediate predecessors were
A
Foldier
in the person of Colonel Caine and a Sailor in that of the late Mr Hillier, the latter succceding the former in due rotation, while both went forward to high preferments
in the service.
The usual course of promotion.
was first set aside in
my
case), and I
confidently submit it to your Grace, whether, it could prove an exemplary spectacle public functionary who has clone
that a
hie desty
and reasonably aspires to its
awards, should be placed in a dead lock
for.
ever by the force of qualification
u.
an ex post facto.
Thees
if
I cannot advance)
in the service I can only pray to be
allowed to retire from it, and
beg
leave
in the former case most dutifully to-
resign
inte
your.
Grace's hands that Commision
which I have had the honor to hold for the
last- eleven.
health to
years. rather than return in impaired
amid the peris
a hopeless career,
of a deadly climate.
If, in accepting my resignation,
your Grace shall see
fit, look.
looking at my
supplanted prospects in the service und
in life
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injuriously
my previous career
haversed by joining it under such circumstances not to speak of the health which I have sucrificed to it in such a climate, & recommend
-Lords Commissioners for some.
me to my
small provision for my declining years out the Hong Kong Serperannuation fund,
of
to which I have been a contributor from first to last, I shall feel profoundly grateful I confidently trust- Grace will see fit.
your
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to ordain that if the growing importance of the Settlement of Hong Hong requires professional Magistraks, its flourishing.
Revenue inay
alleviating by
be fairly charged with
don Le
connual frillance
resign
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