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position in the Department, no promotion, and leaving me in fact, in the same rank as when first appointed to the Department, and subordinate to the First Assistant, or what is now, Executive Engineer.
On reference to your Lordship's Despatch No. 243 of 1890, I gather that instructions are given to promote Officers according to seniority, and now that the post of First Assistant Engineer is vacant, owing to the resignation of the Officer (Mr. Orange) I should, as Second Assistant Engineer, be promoted to his rank, and also to the position