71862/re
the Colonial Ordinance No 10 of 1862 joc
applies both of there in the old folio edition of these Ordinances) that gives to the Chief Justice who shall have served say
16 years a pension of £1290.13.4. on retirement
Lady
b. in the Table to the minute this rule other office is given to "Chief Justices who have not previously served any
the Colony" These words are obviously added to prevent section 5 of the mischief to the case of a Chief Justice applying
who under that section would otherwise get the whole of his
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Than much smaller salary on the scale £500 a year, and not to exclude allowance of pension altogether, in which construction my case would fall under the rule of 1859 & not under the minute, I submit that if this minute is held to apply to me this is equitable
to owe me a pension in respect of
my years service as
in
Attorney General
the pension
in as much in proportion to the,
I should be entitled to in case I had
served out the 10 years fixed in the Table
Whole to allow me to add
the years com
f
bring a total pensionable
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of To
180.0.0 1291.13.4
£1441:13.4
& Referring to sec 9 of the Act of 1859 and to of the Minute of 1852 I venture to submit
the following
as special grounds for the grant of
457
a higher pension rate of pension than the
Minimum
the Act or the minute.
that when I was Attorney General the
owners of the United and Confederated rates were, under my advice, so that no objection was taken, dealt with though heavy compensations for errors
here were established decisions as
that my
Chief Justice part China waters,
n and to the Coolie Traffic
and that any efforts caused the Cessation (= the licencing of Gambling Houses, which Acts were repeatedly commended by principal Secretaries of State for the Colonies.
du ccom ww.
— that I was entitled to retire on pension
in 1873 and that I should have been in receipt of a pension from that date to the present time, and that a second such fraction might also be now running, all which annual payments have been saved to the public
that I have had repeatedly serious; sometimes dangerous, illness at Hong Kong. I always left the Colony when and only when
. My so doing illness unfitted me for work. My so occasioned very heavy expenses to me, of which the Colony has had the benefit in my e lengthened service
"that the adoption of a new Code in 1874 effectively changed the procedure in the Supreme Court and imposed on the the greatly increased