CO129-052 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [9-12] — Page 31

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Anggestion I withdrew my application.

I have borne this summer for better than I expected, but within the last ten days my health, after the usual manner of the Climate, has given way. seen from the enclosed certificate.

as will be

I am of course aware that two of the Heads of Departments are likely to matio= shortly a socivilar application but from

what I understood of your

Excellency's

wishes and sistentions on the occasion.

of my application in June last to which

d no inconvenience

I have just referred

to

will accrue to the public service, as are officient officer will be on the spot a undertatte the duties of Colonial : bcretary.

At the same time the two Gentlemen to whom I allude, the Surveyor Several and the Colonial Treasurer have higher

claims to leave of absence than I, but I

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must be permitted to add that they Ibelieve, prepared to subunit propositions

for the satisfactory conduct of their duties, and this without interfering with the arrangement which I presume your Excellency would make for the & fulfilment of the duties of the Secretary to Government. As regards private Affairs, which, more than my

it is as

my health, Iurged in June last,

important to use now as it was then to visit Great Britain, and will be

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tant even our

important

the

a receipt of

reply from the Colonial office.

While therefore I again refer to

the Medical

Imay

Certificate I have enclosed call attention to the fact that

I have - gone the

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through four

summers.

in the second terin of a residence

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