CO129-104 - Sir Robinson - 1865 [1-3] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [3-4] — Page 161

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Commanding Royal Engineer, and also calling your attention to the number of Portuguese holding derkships under this Government which circumstance be considers has had an injurious effect upon the prospects of his own son, who was

desk in the Surveyor General's

+ Department

for

Mr. Storey's complaint against the Royal Engineer Department was necessarily referred to Colonel Moody his observations, but the explanation was made for your information and not for Mr. Storey's. If it kids ben submitted for Mr. Storey's peru L The would have made a

rejoinder

which in its turn would have had

to be referred to Colonel Moody, and- the correspondence would have been interminable.

As regards M. Storey's son I need only observe that he was on application appointed in

his

own

August 1863 to be assistant Clerk in the Surveyor heneral's departmen but he had

no sooner obtained the port than he sought to have the "emolument of it increased to an amount more commensurate with what he conceived to be this expabilities, and failing

own

this, and in obtaining promotion

as

rapidly as he expected, he

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