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discharge my duties to your Lordship's satisfaction.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your most obedient humble servant,
William Lockhart.
Extract from a minute of Mr Russell, Treasurer and Registrar General on handing over those departments to Mr Stewart on 2nd April 1883.
"Mr Lockhart has been in the Registrar General's office for the best part of a year. It's been of the greatest assistance to me in dealing with Chinese matters. He has been, I may say, attending to the supervising of all translation work and inquiries brought to the office. I leave you will find him, as I have found him, a thoroughly reliable worker - zealous, accurate, and ready to turn to anything requiring prompt attention into Chinese cases which have...