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was

in

notified to me

from

instanec

the

first ine by

Communicating

his private Secretary to a friend.

in which the Emoluments

Affice

of

th

were stated to be £300 per

innum.

B

visit

my first

first muit to the

Colonial Office in Downing

in Downing Street,

the Clorth administering the affairs

of Anghong intimated to me the

Lame

fact, and two or

three

days

subsequently the same assurance was not only repeated by M2 Pennington in the Warrant department of the

but he corroborated

Colonial

Affiel

his accertion by chowing

me an

official

statement in which £300 per annum

was set down

It hence

as

160

my future Salary-

appears

obvious that all

duc care and caution were skewed by

me in ascertaining the true nature of the Office before accepting an appointment to it..

Was

On my arrival in the Colony !

greatly concerned at finding

that the emoluments had been reduced to two hundred per annum by Great

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anangement and that I am to be paid at this redneed rate..

I would most respectfully urge

upon Itis hucellency that

above

arrangement cutered into between private individuals attested as by so many emneument auurances