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2nd Clerk at the Magistracy.
who is under suspension
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Nevertheless, had I only to consider the exigencies of
the Department to which Mr. Prior belongs, I should have been inclined to accept his resignation
as it is impossible
to obtain the services of a
suitable temporary Clerk for a month (the half Salary
the Office), and the Public Service suffers
Consequence.
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I beg therefore to take this opportunity of suggesting to your Lordship that this Government should have the
power of dismissing Public
reported
in
my
Despatch
85
of 9th April..
"With the advice of my
Executive Council, I have
granted Mr Prior's
request
on
the understanding that he
leaves the Colony on his own responsibility.
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his
on
own
$60
of
With reference, however,
to Mr Prior's application to resign, and for
donation
from the Public Funds to liquidate his liabilities, I
have, as a matter of course,
declined to accede to it. -