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Mr. Smither is Sexton & lecher off. Cauit.

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24 August 757.

Copy to Governor 26 Auge

At no. 107.

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4270 trong trong

14

543

Samacia Street- Commercial Road

St Georges East 7th August 1857.

I respectfully beg to submit to and humbly request

you, the following

case, and

your kind consideration on

your

my behalf. I am the bisher and Bailiff of the Supreme

Court of Hong Kong, which appointment I have held since the year 1848.

In the mouth of July 1856 I was laid up with sickness; and in the mouth of October following, I was advised by the Colonial. Surgeon that nothing

could do

me

but a

voyage to Englands

Petition

any good, and upon my to His Excellency he John Bowring, the Governors coupled with the Certificate of the Colonial Surgeon, His Excellency was pleased to grant me leave of absence for Eighteen mouths."

That His Excellency knowing my straightened circumstances, kindly made application to His Excellency Admiral Leymour to give me a free passage in N. M. S. "Winchester which

"in H. was

granted

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