10.196.
No
Ongkong.
sir,
Government House, 1
37
C. O.
17003 !
Hongkong, 9th. April, 1903.
11 WAY 03,
I have the honour to inform you that I
have found it necessary to consider in Executive Council
certain charges of alcoholism which were brought against Mr,
J. J. McMichael, Sanitary Inspector, by the Sanitary Board.
The case was dealt with in accordance with Colonial Regula-
tions Nos. 83 to 94, and in accordance with the advice of my
Executive Council (in which I concurred) I have caused Mr.
McMichael to be informed that he is suspended from the exercise
of his duties with effect on and from the 8th. instant, and
will cease from that date to draw any emolaments from the
Government.
Marked! Marked 2 to 6.
2.
I enclose a copy of the list of charges,
letters to and from Mr. McMichael, and an extract from the
minutes of the Meeting of Executive Council held on the 6th.
instant, and have the honour to submit for your consideration
that Mr. McMichael be dismissed from the Service.
3
In his letter of the 23rd. instant you
will observe that Mr. McMichael states that he had hoped that
his case had been already dealt with by the Sanitary Board,
by whom he was reprimanded. The Board however had been given
no authority to deal finally with the case, and I considered
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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