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My Lord.
1.
Enclosure!
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Public Works Department
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30th Sept 18982:32
have the honour most respectfully
to address your Lordship with the consent
to
the Governor with
regard as Land Surveyor in the above
of
His
Excellency
my Salary
Department.
2.
J
was appointed in England in July 1889
under the usual 3.
years Agreement to the post
of Assistant Land Surveyor
under the Rating Ordinance
$150 a
or as Assessor
at
a
Salary
of
mouth, and I arrived in Hong Kong
on the 19th September following.
of my appointment and
3
At the time
For in the
the
preceding sixe Boundary
years Branch
I
utas
engaged
the Ordnan
Survey Department under Major General R.0
Jones C. B
and it
that I
ivas
was
OTO
his recommendation
appointed to Hong Kong
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The Right Honourable the Marquis of Ripon K. C. M. G.
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonico