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(Revised Edition) Ordinance, 1900. It was still in progress
at the time of my retirement on pension in April, 1902, and was
not completed until the beginning of 1904. The edition was in
two large 8vo. volumes, with a third volume containing a
chronological table and an index. For this work I received
the thanks of the Legislative Council, and complimentary
references to it were made by the Chief Justice at a sitting of
the Supreme Court and by the local press.
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9. For none of these services did I ask or receive
any pecuniary reward or compensation, though it is proper to
mention that, in the cases of the two British Guiana services,
I was on full salary for the whole or greater part of the time
during which they were being performed. With the exceptions
mentioned below, all the services were performed while I was on
leave of absence in England. The exceptions are the drafting
of the Bills, the revision and completion of the Code of Civil
Procedure, and the earlier part of the work on the Hongkong
Ordinances, which were all carried through in Hongkong. The
middle and later portions of this last-mentioned work were
performed while I was on leave in Japan and in England and
after my retirement in England. These various services have
filled up the time of every long leave that I have had as an
officer of the above-mentioned Colonial Governments. Apart
from the periods of leave so occupied, the only leave that I
had during my 23 years of service was as follower- About
five months in 1881 2 on account of the illness of my wife
there in England and my own subsequent illness from typhoid fever;
about ten days in 1883 on account of the illness and death of
my mother in Barbados; and about five weeks in 1891 on account
of the illness and death of my brother in Barbados.
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