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for compensation for such loss.
ty.
The sa
salary of the prescut Colonial. Secretary was fixed at £250 a year ter
than that allowed to his predecessors who
enjoyed
the
QCUME
me. To de prive
privileges now claived
of
such privileges
ed since 1879,
by me.
Asse. Prove
of s
which I have
njoyed
without giving
no.
any compensation,
would, I subruit, be a harsh and
unfair proceeding amounting to a further reduction of the emolument of the office
8.
I would further ask His r
Excellency to consider the
to consider the fact that I
am bound in the interest of my
Office, not to surrender
Qucces2012 in
any of the privileges that flowe hitherto been attached to that office.
Quring the time that it is on was absent from the Colorry last
year.
9.
Excellency
D
M
year,
I had to entertain amongst
others
His Highness the Maharaja of Johore, The German and the French Admirals and their Staffs,
Sir Richard Ronnie,
the Chief Justice of China and Japan, and I was otherwise puut to considerable
extra expense.
lake the
Should His
view
Excellency
uot
of this matter as
I do, I beg respectfully that the question may be referred to the Secretary of State logether
: with a copy of
for
his decision:
copy of this allemexendum
(Signed) 88. 4. Marsh
9th September, 18844
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