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higher rank of Clerk of
the higher
the Excentive and Legislative
Counsils
of
the Colony!
26..
Under these
Circum=
=stances, I most respectfully
Jubmit
all of the foregoing Statements to your Grace, for
consideration and decision; and I, at the same time,
most humbly pray that Your Grase will decide, - whether the duties appertaining to the
Colonial Secretary of
Hongkong, when that officer is
leave, should
absent
continue to be performed by Colonial Treasurer,
the
or
whether they should, in the usual routine of Service,
devolve upon me
as the
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immediate Subordinate to the
Colonial Secretary in his Establish
ment. -
27.- has
If Family connection
any influence upon the character of
Public Servant, -
as to
the respectability of my
parents (now
no
more) and
relatives, I would very respectfully
refer your Grace to the undermentioned Gentlemen, all
are
of whom and who knew
now
in England
late father,
my
Colonel D'Almada, and family, well; viz: - Governor Elliot, of Bermuda; Mr Johnston, late Secretary to the Superintendency; Mr Plowden, and Mr Astell, M. P., Directors of the East India Company, and Sir James
Matheson, Bark, M. P..
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