Under the circumstances, I have the honour to lay before Your Excellency a request to ask that you be kind enough to instruct the same to the Secretary of State, with a copy to the Crown Agents being included, to credit and rectify the prejudice and injury suffered by paying to my account at the Hongkong Shanghai Bank, London, the difference between 4/- on my half pay and 4/2 on leave pay as Puisne Judge from the date of my appointment to the date of my embarking for Hongkong.
(2) E. J. Ackroyd.
To His Excellency
Sir: G. J. M. O'Brien, C.M.G.
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Enclosure (REC)
C.O. 620/9675
Officer Administering the Government to Mr. Justice Ackroyd.
No. 756
Sir,
Government House, Hongkong, 24th April, 1894.
In reference to Your Honour's letter of the 23rd instant on the subject of the payment of certain salary to you at the rate of 14/- to the dollar, I have the honour to inform you that the payment in question appears to have been previously made at that rate because you lost the right to payment at 4/5, owing to your having received...
To His Honour E. J. Ackroyd,