22.
24.-
I bes
now
to submit
to Your Grace that whenever 6.
Colonel laines is
sick
and
consequently unable to attend office, the practice has always been this:- Colonel Paine Sends
me
all
the official cor=
= respondence addressed to him,
and requires
his
duties
me
to
carry
on
at the office,
by my submitting the letters
to the Governor, and receiving His Excelteney's orders therein, which I do, and when
of the
for
an
any
letters received call
answer, that answer
order of the Governor is
prepared by me, submitted
then
to him for approval, and fair copy made sent to Colonel
a
out and
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Caine's house for his signature ._
25.-
و
beg further to
remark, that whenever the head of
a
Department in this
Colony has been granted leave of absence, his duties have invariably been unders = taken by his Subordinate in the Establish. =ment, as
will appear from
oldest
immediate
Despatches addressed to the Colmial Office; and the only exception, - casting reflection apon the character of the
Civil Servant in China, - has occurred, Since November, 1852, in the Department of the Colonial Secretary, the Chief Clerk of which office holds also
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