that in the case
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expenses for their Managers although the gentleman are paid much higher salaries than the Heads of Departments in the Public service, receive, and Alerts since the rules was made to charge rents for the Quarters in the Post Office, the Colonial regulation in this respect; has been deviated from in the case of the Officers of the Mint; and, of some other offices it; has not been applied, and therefore I hope that considering the extra duty performed by the Officers resident here, and the advantages gained by the Public, in consequence of that the exaction may be removed. I enclose a copy of Clause 6 of Ordinance 8 of 1862, of which I sent a copy for the consideration of this with our letter of the 30th March 1865, upon which and the other reasons stated
I trust respectfully to apply for the same privileges
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and exemptions which the Postmaster had, before the transfer of the Office, enjoyed free of expenses being one of the privileges I think
If any apology is necessary for again bringing this subject which has already been brought forward for the consideration of yourself and your predecessors
in the administration
of the Government of this Colony, particularly by letters of the 20th June 1864, 22nd July the same year,
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I trust it will be found, in the facts of the severe hardship imposed, which has virtually, considering especially the enormous difference in the cost of living during the past 6 years span, particularly placed me in a position, or at least, successive to the transfer of the Offices, and so far
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