the tws Ports named.
are all
consular Officers who have never
before the transfer of
the Post Office to the Colony been required by the Imperial office to give security. it being suppored that their position in the Consular Service
was a
sufficient guarantee for
the small sums at
time in their hands.
any
one
The duties at some
the
Ports in question
are
performed
without remuneration, at the
rest allowances varying from
per annum
£40 to £bo
are
Lord Stanley of
Alderley to the Loods Commissions. of the Treasury. 11 March, 19. (Vide Duke of
paid by arrangement from the tavernas buy Imperial Postal Devennie- It
of
No 24 of 24th March, 1861.)
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there officers
were
to be called
upon to find security several
I am
-
sure, would decline to
retain the
agencies
on such terms
and all who found security
would very reasonably make it the ground for applying for
their present smale
increase of allowances.
I have the honor to be.
My Lord Juke. Your Grace's,
Most Ordient Servant
Merete Shoe Robinson
an
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