CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6] — Page 56

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hundred pounds per of

awwur

appointment it was

his app

at the time

expected that there would be a considerable amount of emolumen the Ecclesiastical Surisdiction of

arising from

the Court but that there emoluments only

amounted to the sum

of Forty six pounds

and seven pence

in the year

three shillings 18th and to Seventy nine pounds six shilling

and six pence halfpenny in the

Eshat

your

Petitioner

funds

year

1865-

the above Salary

and emolumento utterly insufficient for his

support owing

to the high prices prevalent

in the Colony for all articles of subsistence especially the heavy rent charger

it impossible fo

and more

for

houses

rendermy

him

to procure a house fitted for the accomme of his family for a les sum then Oue hum

Dollars a mouth or wo hundred and

pounds Sterling a year- perands

built one

at an

fifty

he has therefore

expence of Ilvo thousan

pounds the interest of which at twelve

per Cent (the current rate in the Colony)

forty pounds per

is Two hundred and

ammun

Ishat

your

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Petitioner is prevented

by the duties of his Office from

his means

If

profession. That of kriowing

livliehood

your

ly

encreasing

the exercise of his

Petitioner has

the amount of Salary

no means

attached to the

Office of Eregistrar in other British Colonies, but he is informed that the registrar of Singapore

enjoys a Salury of £1500

a

a year

besides the

Commision on Intestate Estates which amounts

to

very

considerable sum

Under these circumstances.

your

Betitioner

humbly prays your Lordship to take his case nito your favorable consideration.

and

grant him such an encrease

your

Salary

fit.

as to

And your

of

Lordship shall seem

Will ever

Petitioner as in duty bois

pray Spot Fundas lay

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