To
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Enclosure in despatch No 272
of 14th December, 1897, from Governor Sir William Robinson,
The Right Honourable
Joseph Chamberlain, M.P.
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
for
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Blewetle as follows:
The humble Petition of William Butler of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong
Your Petitioner in his twenty-first year entered with the services of the Metropolitan Police Force on the 25th October 1869
and resigned his situation in the Metropolitan Police Force on the 12th December 1872 in order to enter the Hong Kong Police:
that during the time he was in the Metropolitan Police Force he received
a certificate signed by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis certifying that his conduct was good. A copy of this Certificate
is contained in the Schedule hereunder written.
By an Agreement dated the 12th day of December 1872 and made between your Petitioner of the one part and William Charles Earle on behalf of Her Majesty of the other part for the consideration thereinafter
mentioned your Petitioners agreed to proceed to Hongkong as Constables in the Police Force of the Government of that Colony and to faithfully and honestly fulfill
the duties required of him by the Government of Hong Kong for the term of five years from the date of arrival in the Colony. It was
further agreed that Your Petitioner should be paid
the salary. and that the Government of Hong Kong would,
if the conduct of Your Petitioner should in the opinion of the said Government have been satisfactory grant him at the expiration of ten years a pension at the rate of 4/77 of his
annual salary in respect of such years. In pursuance of the said
Agreement Your Petitioner arrived in the Colony.