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Hong-Kong, 23rd. December, 1898.
sir,
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your despatch No.296 of 11th.ultimo. With reference to the
offer of Sir J. Carrington, Chief Justice, to prepare during his
projected leave of absence in 1899 a revised Edition of the
Laws of the Colony,I have communicated to the Chief Justice
your views on the subject.
2. The third paragraph of your despatch raises
a very important point on the subject of leave on which I
shall be glad to have a clear pronouncement. I have always in-
terpreted Colonial Regulation 119 as referring to the first
six years of an officer's service in the Colonies, and that a public officer having served six years in any Colony would be entitled to leave in any Colony to which he might be transfer-
red even though he had not completed six years service in that
Colony. I submit that any other interpretation of the Regula- tion might involve great hardship, and if an official were transferred from one Colony to another before the expiration
of six years might result in his never being entitled to leave on half pay during his entire service except his health broke The Right Honourable
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JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,M.P.
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