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the cause of the delay which has
occurred in reporting the retirement of Police
Constable G. Bragg, and in arranging the payment of his pension through the Crown Agents. The Despatch also instructs me to supply your Lordship with the usual Particulars
in now that the Pension
to Bragg.
may be regularly paid Your Lordship adds that this
is not the only case in which difficulties are
being experienced from the absence of direction
from
the Colony for the guidance of the Crown Agents.
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I beg to report
that the usual Particulars in the case of Constables' pensions are transmitted by the Colonial Secretary to the Crown Agents direct.
except once a
Year
when
sending
the Annual
Return, which includes a list of
such Pensions, they do not come before the Governor after he has approved of the recommendation
of the Captain Superintendent
3
Soon
In late Constable Bragg's case
I wrote to the Colonial Secretary on the 3rd April 1880 the Captain Superintendent
forwarding the Pension papers were Finance
1.87 1859, and adding
Explication for a
Free passage to England in lieu sabrems. This letter does not appear to have been sent I see In the Margin is the following Minute (no date) in Mr. Marsh's writing - "H (Bragg)
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subsequently asked for gratuity, intending to proceed provided he is allowed to leave at the
"end of this week having been offered a passage
in A. M. R. 'Policeman'.".
Mr. H. M
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