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on 3 years agreements as under the Colonial regulations in one respect, you
must treat them as under the regulations
In all of this ought not to be.
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wishes can be met
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C.Pd. 11 at once
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C.P.2-13
at once
No. 84.
Hongkong.
Enclosure 1.
Sir,
Government House, Hong Kong, 11th March, 1902.
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I have the honour to transmit to you, in
duplicate, a Petition addressed to you by Mr. P. Crisp, a
Building Overseer in the Public Works Department, in which he
prays for repayment to him of the amount of $350.97 being the
cost of the passages of his wife and child to Hongkong which
he was called upon to refund in view of Mr. Sercombe Smith's
minute, a copy of which accompanied Sir Henry Blake's Despatch
No. 183 of the 10th of May last.
2.
I also transmit to you a copy of a minute
by the Acting Colonial Treasurer respecting the cases to
Enclosure
March 1902.
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3.
which Mr. Crisp refers, which, however, cannot be regarded
as precedents.
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I am unable to recommend the prayer of this petition.
In view of the decision conveyed to Sir
Henry Blake in your Despatch No. 198 of the 19th June, 1901,
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
&c. &c.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient
Humble servant,
M.J. Gascoigne
Major-General,
Administering the Government.