Sir,
Original.
0.0178
20614
Ox
REG 7 AUG 19
Magistracy, Hongdong,
the 17th May, 1899.
I have the honour, most respectfully, to ask leave to approach you with the request that I may be permitted to lay before you certain circumstances in connection with my recall to the Hongkong Civil Service after having been pensioned.
2. I have been brooding over these circumstances and from whatever side I have looked at them,
The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.
they
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