CO129-090 - Public Offices & Others - 1862 — Page 284

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Officers, including Offices of the Commiparist and medical

Departments, serving

D

me, all

F

I

M

of

around

whom have held

Offices of lower rank, and

Mearly

all

of far less responsibility than mine : while mitter to myself nor to any Colonial Officer

since the establishment of The Colony has a decoration

of any

Kind wer been

to

unpleasant and

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disparaging remarks, but

it hus I can.

unhesitatingly

aunt been injurious to the

Colonial Service in China.

one of the leading objects of

my policy pour the first. was to strive to Elevate the

Character and tone

Thi

Civil Service in the Colony -

to make the Officia's expect

Themselves, and

given.

by

others:

This has not only placed

one personally

occasions

in a

many

encortified

position, and given rive

be

but it

respected

was

impossible to resist the

impression produced by the withholding of all honours

that