690
Office
2. Mr. C. Demée of the
of the same Department-
Enel: 2. 7th Oct. 1895.
3. Mr. F. A. Hareland, 1st Clerk Encl. 3.
of the Supreme Court-
2nd nov. 1895.
4. Mr. E. M. Hareland, Assist Encl: H.
23 March,
ant Engineer in the Public 1895. Works Department- respecting their claims to the
"Exchange Compensation allow-
ance
2.
All the petitioners
ro are
the offspring of European fathers
and Macaese mothers and ~
form
form,
so to speak, a connecting link between officers of pure ~ European descent and the members
of the service, who are natives of Macao; all were born and have their homes in Hongkong,
and none
of them (with the ex-
ception of Mr. F. A. Hazeland who
recently spent 9 months in England) have
have ever -gold-using Country.
Petitioners urge
ever resided in
а
3.
urge that
in
they have relatives living Europe, but it does not appear
that