allowing me the half salary for that period irrespective of the amount of remuneration paid to me
for any special services by the latter Government
and I trust that in addition to this
argument His Excellency will take into consideration the great personal inconvenience and disappointment to which I have been subjected by being so long debarred from assuming the duties of the Office which the Secretary of State has been pleased to
confer
on me
I have to (signed), B.B. Plunket.
Registrar
PRODANY
Waste
Adoso.
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Colonial Secretary to Mr. Plunkett
dir,
510 Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hong Kong, 27th April 1874.
In reply to your letter of
yesterday's date requesting permission to draw half the salary of the
Registrar's Office from June 1876. I
am directed to
inform you
that His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor
must decline with regret to entertain
your application there being no precedent so far as His Excellency is aware entitling
an officer serving in ...