that AAA is entually spent in
the Colony
D
22 Sep.
Boughing, 10th July 1866.
Bis Excellency
In 85859/11
Governor Sir D. J. Macdonnell. 6. 18.
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May it please your Excellency We the undersigned bivil sowants of the brown in the Colony of Hongkong respectfully request that. you will favorably represent to the "Secretary of State for the Colonies
the hardships under which we labor regarding
-Leave of Absence and Retirement.
The regulations for the have been framed to meet the requirements of the Colonies generally; but we submit that officers living in this _ perhaps the most unhealthy chmate in Her Majesty's dominions_ deserve some special consideration,
and that a continuous residence here
years must to,
must to some extent
of six undermine the strongest constitution. "This fact, for it may be called so, has been fully recognised by all Military duckrities ; and the Horeign
office