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Enclosure!
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SEGE 13 JUL 88,
Surveyer teveral to this Excellency the Governor.
(Copy)
Hongkong, 22nd May, 1888.
Sir,
that Mr Stewart, the Colonial
Secretary (whose residence
in Hàng hóng
rs the
covers
whole period of Mr. Price's service) has read this
despatch and heartily-
coneurs, in all I have said
It has become
wy
ery duly infonu Your Excellency that I am prevented by failing health from continuing to fulfil av efficiently and could wish, my functions of Surveyor Jesural of this Colony, and that ? ___
I_ find myself schistantly compelled to resign my poot and to ask Your Excellomy to appoint
who may
I am
by the end of this
year.
relieve
By the ordinary rule of the Service
entitled to sixteen months'
our v xa en
a
Leave of Absence and I might with
His Excellency
advantage
Sir G. William Deelence, K. OMG,