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of his death was the senior officer in the Hong Kong Civil Service, praying for a compassionate allowance.
2.
The late Mr Almada served the Government for forty years having begun in the Superintendency on 5-1-2 Feb 1881.
3.
From the enclosed copy of the minutes of the Members of the "Legislative Council on Mr Almada's Petition, Your Lordship will see that the Legislature would willingly vote the sum of $2,880, being one year's pay of her late husband, as an officer of the Hong Kong Government from the date of the establishment of the Colony. Some months before his death, he had prepared an application for pension when I told him I would deal with his case under clause 9 of the Hong Kong Pension Minute and venture to ask Her Majesty's Government to give him a retiring allowance to the full amount of his salary.
4.
I have made careful enquiries into the statement in Mrs Almada's petition, and have satisfied myself that she was left in great distress, with a family of ten children. Her eldest son was working as a supernumerary clerk for sixteen months.