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PEEP MAY 9 December 1898.
my application for four months' vacation leave and permission to retire at expiration of such leave, I have to thank H.E. The Governor for granting the same.
I would now
beg to refer to
my
service in this
Department - some fifteen years. with a view if possible granting few additional years to such service, and in support of this request I must beg to lay the following facts before your notice.
1st. In the year 1884 I entered into an agreement
with the Crown Agents for the Colonies for
a term of three years in this colony, the duties
of office being named viz:- Supervision (under control of the Harbour Surveyor General) of the constructions of certain Buildings - Victoria College, Central Market, new Gaol, Hospital Buildings and in fact to be engaged on all Building that might
be hereafter erected.
by R. J. Ormsby
Director of Public Works