CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8] — Page 323

Lervices, and

greather deplore

the

necessito which exists in my

hard to

fine

having intrude on Nour Lordships

and attentions.

бі

When in the early part of the thor 1842 Centered the employ of Government as black in the Land Iffice, owing to

We Sickness and inability of

Rode

me there he Books and

heeeding Accounts of

went in.

great

the Office Confusion, so much so, Put In Scoretan reasurer to Her Majette's Superintendents of Frade, the late

And

Mr John Robers Morrison, failing them, could not close up the Accounts with the Lords Commissioners of. Her Majestip reasury; My

diligence in

f

bringing the etccounts into tangibility gained me the good will of that Zentleman, throud I whose recommendation I was removed into the Office of the Desity Superintendent, charz & with the Government of the Island, where I remained, the sole bleck hublayed. until the final return

Excellency

317

Excellence Sir Henry Pottinger from the North with the remaining Effill- Iftablishment: En November 1872.

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in conjunction with mus duties on the Superintendent's Establishment, I was appointed to the Office of Land Road Inspector, and early in 1843 was lagetted as Assistant to W- Gordon, the late Jurowvor General, in the Offices of

Land

and Officer.

Suworor and Inspector of Roadd, Nande. The toring nature of mis duties

21 Cor

and continued exposure to the climate brought on me, in the Kidsum 1843, in its worst form, he cridemicus

Ever which then raged, and for Several Months mus life was despaired of; as certified by the luxe Colonial Turgaon vivi enclosure hersivit? the From the Levers effects of Dysenter which Succeeded the her Qave not, up to the present Lourthous the Rock which mus Constitution, onamnally powerful them

Recovered

received

from

I a

In consideration of mus

illness having been brought on whilst in the Mealous perform.

ann El

In

Duties

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