CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861 — Page 213

desired to acquaint

your

Miat ttres

Enactment to which you refer applies exclusively to the

Heads

of

Departments

in the Public Levice

in this Country. The invariable practice in granting pensing to Colmial Officers is to require Certifeate from itre

w

Governor of diligencs and fidelity, and

you

cannot be

made an exception

to this universal

regulation

As respects thre amoint, I am desired

to mention to

strat the length of

your service in

Rong

you

Kong

was such that

you were not

shictly

Entitled

7.

entitted to

209

any pension

At all, but that in corsideration

itie

failure of health which

of

retirement,

compelled. AM's Cove your

"made such a concession in your

5 years

favor as to add 5. to ttre period of you

actual service on the

spot, and thus to

render you eligible

for

a pension, as well

as to calculate it's

会

amaint on a number

of yearr nearly deaths double that of the years

in which

were in

you the performance of public duty.

With respect to

the Commencement

you pension, I am desired to point out

to

you

itrat

of at a

could

time when it was

evident that

you

never return to you

duties,

you

had at

Mee