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Hongkong 20th June
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IR AUG 04
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It has been notified by me this year that His Imperial Majesty The King has been pleased to receive with satisfaction the reports of my long service, by individuals in various capacities.
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I have therefore the honor to ask for the permission accorded me by the Rules and Regulations for His Majesty's Colonial Service, to address for the recognition of His Majesty the following particulars of my services.
I am a British subject, born at Mainz, Bavaria on the 7th Feby. 1846, became a citizen of this Colony on the 18th June 1862. I was called upon to serve as a common juror in May 1865.
& served on common, coroner's and special juries, answering every summons. I have, with only two absences of about a year each, been resident forty-two years. I am, since February, released from serving on juries.
I have the honor to be
Right Hon. Secretary of State for the Colonies
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Your obed. Servant
Marant Smith