COPY.
Sir,
Sub-enclosure 1.
Treasury,
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8773
VPIS MAR
27th January, 1900.
Permit us to again trespass upon your kindness by soliciting you to be good enough to recommend us to His Excellency the Governor for an increase to our personal emoluments. We take this liberty now as we hear you will soon be leaving the Colony on furlough, and if our application is deferred we shall then lose the benefit of your powerful support.
We are,
The duties entrusted to us in the Treasury, as you must know, are of an onerous and responsible nature, requiring incessant work and the greatest scrutiny, and we venture to believe that, in their discharge, we have invariably met with your approval.
Although a subordinate one, yet the appointment held by us demands that we should observe a certain amount of independence and dignity; this, coupled with the almost insurmountable difficulty for us to make two ends