CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853 — Page 258

I hereby certify:-

1st. That the above leave was,

4 granted

ed to

CommencÒ ow

the

16th of March, 1853 and end on the 15th of March 1834,, on the ground of ill health, and that the Medical Certificate was produced, of which a

copy is annexed

2nd. That Mr. Julius C. Power has served the brown for

Seven years, five months and fiften days.

3rd. That in the courte

on

have

on several

of that

that service he has been absent occasions, at the

the terms specified below, viz: —

In the

17

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e year

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4

1848 _ Fourteen

1849.

1850-

1857-

1852-

dates and for

Fourteen days.

Fourteen days. Eleven

days.

Twelve days.

Sixteen days.

that provision has been made for the due execution of Mr. Julius C. Power's office during his absence, by "Mr Rdward Morgan, blark to the Auditor General .

may

Stratum

Note. - Officers who be under the necessity of applying

to the Secretary of State for an extension of their leaves of absence, are requested to annex this document to their applications, and in order to meet this contingency, it will be furnished to

Duplicate.

them

in

• you

Copy-

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Hong Kong, February 16th, 1853.

Mr. Priver, Accountant and

Clerk of Deed Registry in the Surveyou Generals Department, having applied

to

Mue

leave

respecting his desire to obtain Twelve months,

of absence

for

I have to remark that he has

recided in this Colony for the period

of Meven

which time he

years, of has been imployed by Government

and a half.

for

Leven

years

On former rccasions I have somewhat emphatically remarked that, with the view of preserving the efficiency of

Public Servants,

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