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imperative throughout Great Britain. Should affect be given to this recommendation, in the organization of such a force

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difficulty may perhaps be experienced in finding, at short notice, a enfficient sumber of active officers, and it is under this impression that Iventure to submit to your Lordship my name as a Candidate for Employment in this new force..

Lan at present in my thirty-fourth year, and hold the Ensen's Commission as Chief Magistrates of Police at Hong thong und a member of the Legislative Council" of this Colony, and my fixed and permanent Emoluments amount to one thousand founds

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a year.. Shave been a Magistrate of the Colony for about Eleven years, and Chief Magistrate for more than right years, with the general supervision during

that period of a police force of from one

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who was

hundred and thirty to one hundred and righty men... Commanded by a Superintendent

formerly an officer of the metropolitan police; and to three successive Coveruns of the Colony, to Sir Henry Pottinger, to Sir John Davis, and Experially to Sir George Bonham, I believe Imay confidently appeal for testimony that Shave been up to the present time a faithful servant of the brown.. Little more than half of the Emoluments in England that I now receive here, say six hundred Pounds

would satisfy me..

year.

For giving up prospects in China which from long,

service there and

My knowledge of the language and perpele mre likely to be better in many respects than they would be sleewhere, my perimcipal reason is the ill health of my wife and Eldest son, which has compilled.