CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 400

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re-urge this

as

Service

long is entitling me to more

than

inion, consideration

at Wie Excellency's hands.

Ettent very nearly fourteent years I have filled the Office of Inperintendent Plices and occasiona

of sionally

other important offices vigt Act? dost Magistrate, S Cheriff: Marol:al of the tive Admiralty, Court, Coroner and as the Collector of Revenues, and

Tunhesitatingly assert that

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I have never swerved from what V/ considered to be the strict line of my duty and

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that I have never a hused the trust reposed in me. I

believe my rectitude),

of

official conduct is comprehended and fully appreciated by the Chinese V Foreign community, oth will there faces thost Thereforest Rust

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be earnestly

thy considered by Itis Excellency that to places

me

ne in jeopardy of suspension of office and its attendant ill consequences will be depriving, me not only of my social position and, desolation, as to my present prospects but tear from me the peward for long Services

Her

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