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me your protection in the faithful and diligent discharge of my duty in a position
of much labour and difficulty.
I have the honor to be
My Lord
your Lordship's most obedient Humble Servant
Morrin
P.S. I should, perhaps, mention that if I had formally referred for the decision of the Civil Service Board a question which properly belongs to the Board of Examiners, which here fills the place of the Civil Service Commission in England,
that Board (comprising, as we have seen above, Mr Justice Russell and others of the leading gentlemen in this community) would have felt compelled to resign the numerous duties which they perform gratuitously, and in a most satisfactory manner. But in loyal obedience to the instructions conveyed in the dispatch No. 177, I verbally asked the Chief Justice, when he sought a personal interview
with
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