CO129-055 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [3-5] — Page 362

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If however the exigencies of the public weal, require that a professionally educated gentleman shall fill the office in question, I would in that event, pray that as my claims shall have been superseded by a necessity beyond my control, His Excellency will be pleased to recommend to the Secretary of State, as an equitable adjustment - that my years of service be counted as ten, being the nearest available point in the scheme of superannuation and that I be permitted to retire from the service, with that allowance of pension, which the nearest period of Superannuation offices to the Salary of my present office, and be spared the mortification of being tied down to a hopeless career, and being called upon to serve, where I humbly submit, I have established a rightful claim to rule.

If I am permitted to put forward any collateral claims upon the consideration of Her Majesty's Government, I would beg leave to urge that the Governor to whom I owed my introduction to the service - Sir George Bonham - was pleased to take me into his private counsels, upon questions touching the Magistracy, local interests of this settlement, the British position and prospects, in this country at large. I had the honor to submit my views upon the former subject to the then Secretary of State.

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If however the exigencies of the public weal, require that a professionally educated gentleman shall fill the office in question, I would in that event, pray that as my claims shall have been superseded by a necessity beyond my control, His Excellency will be pleased to recommend to the Secretary of State, as an equitable adjustment - that my years of service be counted as ten, being the nearest available point in the scheme of superannuation and that I be permitted to retire from the service, with that allowance of pension, which the nearest period of Superannuation offices to the Salary of my present office, and be spared the mortification of being tied down to a hopeless career, and being called upon to serve, where I humbly submit, I have established a rightful claim to rule. If I am permitted to put forward any collateral claims upon the consideration of Her Majesty's Government, I would beg leave to urge that the Governor to whom I owed my introduction to the service - Sir George Bonham - was pleased to take me into his private counsels, upon questions touching the Magistracy, local interests of this settlement, the British position and prospects, in this country at large. I had the honor to submit my views upon the former subject to the then Secretary of State. Page 354
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