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The Right Honourable The Earl of Elgin
His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
The Humble Petition of John Shaw
McGregor and others, Master Mariners,
of the Vessels hereinafter referred
to
Sheweth as follows:-
1.
2.
3.
Your Petitioners are Master Mariners, respectively in
command of the several Vessels mentioned in the Schedule
hereto.
The names of Your Petitioners with their respective
signatures, and the length of time during which they have been
acquainted with Antonio Paulo Guterres hereinafter mentioned,
are respectively set out in the said Schedule opposite the
names of the Vessels of which Your Petitioners are respective-
ly Masters.
Your Petitioners respectfully pray that Your Lordship may
be pleased to direct that Antonio Paulo Guterres may be
re-instated in his Office of First Clerk in the Mercantile
Marine Office of the Harbour Department in the Colony of Hong Kong.
Your Petitioners would respectfully urge as their grounds for this Petition the following: -
(a) That the said Antonio Paulo Guterres was con-
tinuously employed in the service of the Hong
Kong Government in the Harbour Department from
the 7th April 1869 to the 23rd January 1907
a period of over thirty-seven years.
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