my note applying for it.
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I have
I. of J. B. Eca da Silva
2nd Assistant,
Observatory.
Enclosure 2
13055
Rec'd 7 JUN 90!
Extract from Minutes of the Executive Council
held on the 30th April, 1890.
Page 239
Mr J. B. Ega da Silva of the Observatory appears
in obedience to a summons under section 85 of the Colonial
Regulations to answer certain charges brought against him
by
(a)
Dr. Doberck the Director of the Observatory.
The following are the charges:-
That you cannot read off a vernier or read a
thermometer or add up columns of figures quickly or correct-
ly or do any other part of your work.
(b)
That you were given a text book for your instruc-
tion and that instead of paying attention to it you gave it
to some person at Macao and did not return it until the
Director threatened to have you summoned.
(c)
That in February last you took twenty minutes to
rule a page in an observing book and that owing to your
excessive carelessness the work had to be stopped as you
spoiled the book.
(d)
That from the 10th to the 24th March 1890 you sat
in the office doing nothing.
(e)
That since the 24th March, 1890, you have absented
yourself from the office on the plea of sickness but that
you have nevertheless been seen walking in the streets.