Colonial Secretary's Office
26th September 1898.
Sir,
I am directed by the Officer Administering the Government to inform you that the Secretary of State has decided not to reinstate you in the Police but to confer upon you a pension calculated on the actual period of your service subject to a deduction of 20 0/0 and conditionally on your ceasing to reside in the Colony of Hongkong.
You will be good enough therefore to elect whether you will reside in Hong Kong without pension or accept a reduced pension on the condition imposed by the Secretary of State.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your Obedient Servant,
T. Sercombe Smith,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Mr W. Stanton,
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After careful consideration, your Petitioner concluded that since the decision to reduce the pension he was entitled to was yours, and that a refusal to accept it on the conditions imposed might mean the total loss of it, he accepted. He did not however understand that he was to be treated as one dismissed, but rather as were the inspectors who left at the beginning of the year. Therefore at the same time, he wrote requesting that arrangements might be made for paying his accumulated pension on his arrival in England, that his passage should be paid thither, that his first class good conduct medal should be returned to him, and that a certificate of character should be issued to him.
To this he received the following reply:-
No 1981 Colonial Secretary's Office
25th October 1898.
Sir,