6.
being discharged at such a period
AS AVDAN
ld prevent his landing in England during the Winter Months . His return to England at the present period exposes him to no such contingency.
The Original Contract __ between Mr Kydd and the Government clearly terminated
All the s
admitted by himself at the bucks we
Kept adve agreement:
expiration of the first 3 years. Thanh 18,
If the Parties
were not ad
idem " as to the terms of the new
Contract intended to be entered into
it follows that there
with mu
was no Contract
from that period and Mr Kydd would in that case be entitled only
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to his passage home and to a
"quantum
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ntum meruil" for his services
since the expiration of the Original
- Contract and up to the dost
of his quan
brown term
landing in England. This meruit he has hitherto received by having drawn pay at the rate of £500 per annum, the maximum rote under his original agreement :
I am therefore of opinion
that Mr Kydd's claims against the Government have no in Law.
foundation
(Signed) Julian Po unaofate, Attorney General. 18th July 1871.
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