I beg to be allowed to recommend to your Lordship that I should be allowed to claim pension on my salary as the Registrar General’s Office and Auditor, offices which I not unreasonably expected to hold concurrently while I was in this Service...
The action taken by His Excellency in the matter is so different from what I had reason to expect both as to offices, an old and from the nature of Your Lordship’s recent despatch as to my increase of pay, that I am compelled with much reluctance to appeal to Your Lordship for a decision in this matter which is to me of vital importance.
I have the honour to be Your Lordship’s most obedient humble servant, John Gerrard.
Since writing the foregoing, I have received a letter dated the 29th March (a copy of which I beg to enclose) which has been placed before His Excellency. For the expression of His Excellency’s confidence in my efficiency, I am grateful, but the reasons given for my removal I still consider as unsatisfactory, and I hope Your Lordship will not consider...
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