CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12] — Page 572

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I shall be glad there four to be informed whether I am authorized to refund to Meris "Pennie and masson one third of the Parsinge money paid by them.

4

Mt. Mercer who recently went home not having been

here six

years

since his previous absence in Europe is not qualified for relief from the Colony, and when he left this, continct parrages had been abolished

some months.

for

15. Jo might be well perhaps to determine at once whether the six years residence which

is to entitle

an

Officer to the

proposed relief must be continuous

-

the question is sure

to

arise here. thus for example,

Officer be compelled to

illuess

it an b return Store

from

of six years,

of

h

before the expiration at his own expense, and second time be compelled to leave before completing a further Service of six years, - would the two periods of Service together, if they exceeded six years' in Service in the Colony, be allowed to entille him to a third of i the Cost of Passage ? I think considering the unhealthiners