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I desire to ask that you will be so good as to bring
under the notice of the Secretary of State certain special
services which were performed by me during my tenure of
office under the Crown in various Colonies and which are
described in a Memorandum attached hereto.
2.
It may, I am aware, be said that regard was had to
these services in the promotions which I received from time
to time in the Colonial Civil Service. But on this view of
the matter I would respectfully beg leave to make one or two
observations. In the first place, promotion is generally
granted to an Officer for the faithful and efficient perform-
ance of his duties in the ordinary course. I may mention that
in the year in which I left the service, vizi 1902, three
Attorneys General were severally promoted to be Chief Justice
in their respective Colonies, viz: Ceylon, Hongkong, and
British Guiana, and, so far as I know, none of them had per-
formed voluntary and prolonged special services such as those
described in the Memorandum. And in any case I wish to point
out that the services mentioned in paragraphs 6, 7, and 8 of
the Memorandum, namely, the preparation of the Hongkong Bille,
the drafting and settlement of the Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure, and the preparation of the new and revised edition
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Colonial Office,
Downing Street,
LONDON. S.W.