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Claim either to bonus
passage money
being
$0.02
retirement:
as
the privileges have given. I understand at the expiration
5 Year
year
terms, & only Refers to the 2 first terms 9's years: I shall be
glad to know too whether
there is any
distinction in
regard to their legal rights
between
officers who have served as long as in-Orley or those who
of late
have been engaged for Years
But
*
assuming
that
the point at issue is one
of not
If custom only
Contract or legal right
X
apparently
under one?
521
I am still in doubt as
to how
the colonial
are in the habit of
granting passage
Money for families
of officers
on retirement, as to whether
they
extend the grant to their
families, & with what latitude as to substituting
the
grant of passage money for a bonus already received. In any case I feel certain that no officer
is
given a passage for more than four persons besides himself
5. M. Orley had been