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to take this Extension I could not receive 1 for my half Salary & the additional period. T I regret that I cannot Avail Myself of the favourably conceded Grace, under the conditions I above named and that therefore it is imperative on me to embark for Hong Kong by the inward bound mail of the 20th of ensuing month by the Overland route.
Her Majesty's Government having granted to officers receiving ... having six years' continuous service in the Colony one third of the passage money from and to China since the abolition, by the Peninsular And Oriental Steam Navigation Company Government contract of Government passages; may I beg that His Grace will give an order that the Agents for the Crown Colonies be instructed to procure ...