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interposed to

mys

further advancement

a to such bar existed when I entered the

service, clse I should not have entered it. My immediate predecessors were

A

Foldier

in the person of Colonel Caine and a Sailor in that of the late Mr Hillier, the latter succceding the former in due rotation, while both went forward to high preferments

in the service.

The usual course of promotion.

was first set aside in

my

case), and I

confidently submit it to your Grace, whether, it could prove an exemplary spectacle public functionary who has clone

that a

hie desty

and reasonably aspires to its

awards, should be placed in a dead lock

for.

ever by the force of qualification

u.

an ex post facto.

Thees

if

I cannot advance)

in the service I can only pray to be

allowed to retire from it, and

beg

leave

in the former case most dutifully to-

resign

inte

your.

Grace's hands that Commision

which I have had the honor to hold for the

last- eleven.

health to

years. rather than return in impaired

amid the peris

a hopeless career,

of a deadly climate.

If, in accepting my resignation,

your Grace shall see

fit, look.

looking at my

supplanted prospects in the service und

in life

تال

injuriously

my previous career

haversed by joining it under such circumstances not to speak of the health which I have sucrificed to it in such a climate, & recommend

-Lords Commissioners for some.

me to my

small provision for my declining years out the Hong Kong Serperannuation fund,

of

to which I have been a contributor from first to last, I shall feel profoundly grateful I confidently trust- Grace will see fit.

your

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سية

to ordain that if the growing importance of the Settlement of Hong Hong requires professional Magistraks, its flourishing.

Revenue inay

alleviating by

be fairly charged with

don Le

connual frillance

resign

the

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