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considered to be a very capable and promising one.
To meet the claim he must not only at once resign his present appointment, but must endeavour to leave his Regiment, (of which he was Adjutant and officiating Squad- ron Commander), and find some employment in which he can save money enough to pay off the debt.
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This, my Lord, is the third case of a similar nature which has come under my own personal experience within the last few years and I venture to submit to Your Lordship that it would be advisable that a brief and clear statement of the precise liabilities which an officer of the Army will incur by accepting an appoint- ment elsewhere in the Empire than in India should be drawn up and sent to the officer at the time that asnic- tion is accorded to his application.
Theoretically officers are presumed to be familiar with all the Regulations which concern them, but the "Civil Service Regulations" do not come within the purview of junior military officers.
I venture very respectfully to make this suggestion be- cause officers who thus find themselves subject to a liability of which they had no knowledge when they accept- ed service in the Colonies, are apt to consider themselves hardly treated, and the frequent recurrence of such "griev- ances" passed from mouth to mouth is a not inconsiderable factor in reducing the popularity of service in His Majesty's Army.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient, humble servant,
Maugary
Governor,&c,.
The Right Honourable
The Earl of Crewe
etc., etc., etc.