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recommend Your Lordship to confirm the permanent appointment of Mr. Seth,
who is now to my entire satisfaction, doing duty, as Clerk of Councils and Chief Clerk in the Colonial Secretary's office.
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I enclose for Your Lordship's information a copy of some official minutes and correspondence respecting Mr. Seth.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,
O. M. 3317/1881.
Ut Seth to the Legislative Council, Magistrates.
Gentlemen,
Hongkong 1st February, 1881
A vacancy having occurred in the Colonial Secretary's Office consequent upon the demise of Mr. J. M. D'Almada e Castro, being Clerk of Councils and Chief Clerk, I have the honour to apply for promotion.
I first joined the service of this Colony on the 14th February 1868 as Government Interpreter in this Department, in which Office I served until the 30th October 1869 (C.S. O. No. 240 of 1868) when I left to enter...
The Hon. Ng Choy and The Hon. M.S. Foster, Acting Police Magistrates, Hong Kong.