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You are entitled to draw the half salary of Registrar from the date of your embarkation at Singapore.
I have … (signed) J Gardiner Austin, Colonial Secretary.
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Mr. Plunkett to Colonial Secretary.
Court House, Hongkong, 28th April, 1877.
Sir,
In reference to your letter No.309 of the 27th instant, informing me that His Excellency the Governor regrets he cannot entertain my application for the undrawn half pay of my office as Registrar from the date of my appointment on the grounds that, as far as His Excellency is aware, there is no precedent entitling an officer serving in one…
: J. Gardiner Austin, Esq., Colonial Secretary.