Your Lordship to consent to allow the refund of the money which he paid into the Superannuation Fund, viz: three thousand two hundred and sixty-two dollars and twenty-six cents.
The petition is accompanied by a certificate from M.W. May, the Acting Colonial Treasurer, to the effect that the amount specified to have been paid was actually paid, and by a copy of a letter signed by the three unofficial members of the Legislative Council in support of the prayer of the petitioners.
M.W. Ahmadu, as I have on a previous occasion in my Despatch 3662, W:26 of the 24th February 1875, explained to Your Lordship, joined the service in 1836; in 1864, he paid the sum now sought to be recovered into the Treasury with a view to securing a larger pension on his retirement, and in 1875, he ceased to exist while still in active service.
The position of the Colony, therefore, with regard to him was this. Had he in 1869, in which year he attained the age of 55, elected to retire on a pension, the Colony would have had to provide him with a pension of about £480 per annum until the date of his death, and would, moreover, have had to appoint...
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