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continued, with a few brief interruptions, to discharge the same, until the abolition of my office, on the 30th day of June, A. D. 1870.
The services, which, during my tenure of office, I had the honour to render, may be enumerated as follows: -
Morning and Afternoon Services were held every Sunday throughout the course of each recurring year, prayers read daily at half-past eight O'clock A. M., and my domiciliary visits were regularly paid to all persons entrusted to my spiritual care.
Again, on board all Her Majesty's brigs, or Sloops of war, which, at intervals, were stationed at this port as guard ships, I invariably officiated in the threefold capacity of an unpaid Chaplain, Naval Instructor, and School Master.
But again, during the occupation of the City of Canton by the Allied Armies of Great Britain and France - which extended over a period of three years and ten months - I officiated as an unpaid Assistant Military Chaplain to the British forces during the occupation.
Further, I was from the