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7-With regard to the question of your Petitioner not having concluded his term of service, is able to say that it was a common practice, so long as he was in the Police Force, for men
whol earned pensions to be allowed to take them and resign at any time during a five years' period of ent" ment, Consequently there was nothing unusual in your Petitioner having applied for and been ed permission to resign on pension, especially, as was well known at the time, be was suffering f illness.
8.-This is your Petitioner's case. He complains that he has been most unjustly deprived off honestly earned pension on the utterly baseless grounds set out above. Although a Chinaman and as jeet of the Emperor of China, your Petitioner has faithfully served the Hongkong Government the humble position of a Police Sergeant Interpreter, for the period above stated, in reliance on laws of the Colony and the faith of its Government to grant hin whatever pension he was log entitled to on his retirement from the service. The Government, however, or certain responsible offi of it, having now ignored their own laws, broken faith with your l'etitioner, and refused to gram pension, he begs that you, Sir, the only person to whom he can appeal, will direct his case to be pe perly investigated by responsible, unprejudiced, and just officials, in order that he may obtain justic or that, in the absence of any reliable evidence against your Petitioner, you will display towards le that regard for the poor and oppressed that has helped to make your name famous throughout t British empire and, of your own accord, grant him his pension.
I am, SIR,
Your most humble obedient servant,
Chimae
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Minute by the Captain Supt. of Police.
Hon. Col. Secretary.
At the time Cheung Ho resigned he was s
serving
for a period of 5 years under section 11 of Ordinance 14 of
1887.
He applied for permission to resign under
section 14 vide application attached dated 31 August.
My minute in rea ink thereon was communi-
cated to Cheung Ho by the Chief Inspector and in reply
Cheung Ho informed the Chief Inspector that he wished to
retire without pension.
Apparently he was unwilling to meet me at
the Gaol Office, in other words to face an enquiry into his
(P. 16.)
From
SIR,
SCHEDULE A.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
MEMO.
To
Cheung Hoo Esq.
366 Queen's Road West,
HONGKONG,
8/10/
1897
you
that I
regret that I am unable to
In reply to your letter of even date I beg to inform
recommend that you should be granted a pension.
Your obedient servant,
(sd)
F. H. May.
C. S. P.
conduct.
Cheung Ho acted with his eyes open and I am
afraid it is too late for him now to claim a pension to
which he deliberately resigned all claim when he retired.
(Sd.) F.H.May.
4.1.98.