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Council has elsewhere, or as required by the positive directions of your Medical attendant, by which alone the Executive must be guided.
His Excellency has therefore anxiously considered all the circumstances of your case, and is advised that he has no authority to grant you a longer leave than six months on half Salary. It is quite unnecessary, however, to explain here the grounds on which the above opinion is founded to the limit of leave grantable; because His Excellency will be careful to transmit to the Secretary of State copies of your Letters, and if any error has been committed, His Lordship will no doubt rectify it on the principle that the Governor in Council meant and intended to give you the utmost leave grantable.
As you will require a fortnight to make preparations for your departure, and as it is desirable that you should neither undertake nor be liable for any official duty, the Governor in Council has assumed the personal responsibility of adding 15 days to the leave grantable. Thus, without trenching