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19187 Beevor Hall
Barnsley, Yorkshire.
26th September 1861
Pe 28 SEP 31
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr Meade's letter of the 8th instant enclosing a copy of a despeetch from the Secretary of white to Governor, Sir William Des Voeux dated 23rd Aprel 1861 and also a form of agreement in duplicate for my signatur as Assistant Engineer in the public Works Department.
of Hong Kong.
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In reply I beg most respectfully to be allowed to submit my case for reconsideration and to lay before Lord Knubford
briefly as I am able, some which cannot but move his Lordship's sense of justier to dispense
my signing this Contract. In 1887 the pressure of work on the public. Works Department at Hong Kong bung unduly heavy
the increase, while the Engineering Staff was numerically weak, it became an object to securi without any delay some additional competent professional assistance and, while pressing throuch Hong Kong, I s was induced by the then Surveyor - General to forego mut appointment in Japan and give my services to the Department.
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If it was to forego the certsinty of permanent employment elsowhere in order to enter the service of the tectonial Government. I naturally was cimpelled justice myself to ask for some assurance that I should get a continuity of work and in reply I was distinothe and specifically informed by the then Surveyor-General, that Although appointments to the Department could only be maids in the soutary of State for the bolents, I might The Under Secretary of State
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Colonial Office.