a successor in his place; instead of which owing Active Service until the day of his death the Colony remains possessed of his superannuation money and has had no counterbalancing outlay to provide in return.
to his continuance in
Your Lordship must not imagine however that any claim is being set up on these grounds; the petition is simply an appeal ad misericordiam and is prompted by the urgent nature of the petitioner's distress.
They are at this present moment without the means of subsistence; the four hundred pounds which Your Lordship allowed to be voted to them has been already absorbed by demands which it was imperative to meet, and as it so happened that the Colony has been the recipient of the money for which it naturally expected to have to reimburse a pension in return, the petitioners beg that Your Lordship will make an exception of this case, and take into consideration the long and faithful services of the deceased to allow the repayment of the sum mentioned.
I do not know how far Your Lordship will feel disposed to accede to the prayer of the petitioners, but I would suggest that possibly Your Lordship may not object under the circumstance