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sir,
Conclosure
1.
Supreme Court,
641
17th. May, 1910.
20708
REC? Rro 7 JU !0
I have the honour to apply for a period of
leave beginning on the 7th. December next and ending on the 6th
January, 1912.
I desire to devote part of my leave to
attending regularly at the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House,and at the Central Office of the Supreme Court, England.
Probate practice in Hongkong is in many
respects in an unsettled and unsatisfactory state, and on most
of these points little or no assistance can be obtained from any
of the text books on the subject, and the only way of ascertain-
-ing the practice is to gain an acquaintance with the actual
working of the probate registries in England. Forms of grant,
too, are not given in any of the books. I am anxious to riake a
collection of forms, especially forms of grant, and to make my-
-self acquainted with the English practice in those points where
it is obscure.
I am also anxious to make myself acquainted
with the practice of the Central Office on certain points, and
to attend in the Taxing Department in order to obtain experience
in taxation work.
As the above work, which I believe would
greatly benefit the general working of this Department, would
Iventure to ask that three months occupy my full time for at least three months of the above
period of thirteen months may be treated as actual service and
that I may be given full pay for those three months in addition
to the usual three months of vacation leave. I would undertake
to produce certificates to show that I had worked in the
offices in question for the full period of three months in all.
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