Papers
then
Bare
back
at once
15
or sent to the usual
the force of the Colonial Secretary's letter does not
10
seem to have warranted them
instructions to the Crown agents
!
12th July Your
Lordship's Despatch
with reply was received the Acting Colonial Secretary Stewart put the following minute on the papers which he found had been filed and put in the Colonial Office in April last
"No intimation was given to the Crown
re this pension. Does Mr. Elves (the "Despatch Clerk") or Mr. du Boulay (the Fort Clerk "Anti Rice) Know Why?
2nd Nov 1880
In reply there clerks wrote..
B.B.C.
31
407
417
".. Silly, it escaped 1. Workhouse's attention
and the 2.1.0 was ordered to be filed
Sa
2. 11. 8.
I cannot say why, much less Mr. Without
forethought about it.
2.11.50.
As regards the pensions which it is the duty of the parish to report to the Secretary of State, the Acting Colonial Secretary says: "The other pensions granted this
year,
namely of Hepps Ingas, Saunders and "Erding have been duly reported to the Secretary
of State and duly acknowledged"
8.
In accordance with your Lordship's
Dec.
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