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been held to apply to Governors, to Judges, or to other persons who have
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been for many years in the Civil
own
Service of the Crown in other parts of the Empire; where (as in my case while at Mauritius) they may - have already exercised the privilege of remittance.
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members
I have to make large provision in England for of my family, and for Life Assurances; the burden of which is much increased by the heavy extra-premium
exacted for residence in vo unheal
unhealthy
a
a climate as that of Wonghong. The sudden change of front on the part
of the Colonial Office threatens to me to much inconvenience,
put m
for,
before leaving England, I had naturally made arrangements on the
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assure
-faith of the rule hitherto maintained. Still I can conscientiously Your Lordship that it is on public and not on personal grounds, that I submit that a change of the Kind contemplated, should, in pursue of the general rule hitherto enforced, be sarried out only at the beginning
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