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Minut, and it is to this may

document that at desini to call

attention.

I was absent at the

thin the document was framed; I should have brought to In Stercale, Robinson's notice the fact that, thoughs drawn from the Ceylon Pension Muint,

one important particular,

certain advantage. those entering

it is altered in

for the latter

Swis

to old servants, voy:, liefore 1852, and this on

4

the

ground,

In Sterentes has since explumed to me, that these had rested rights not

to be disturbeds.

Now the old Hongking servants had rights, which, though they tried from time to time to get them settled

or beated, never were so, but through no fault of theirs, and these rights were not the less rights.

Deductions from Salary were

Made from

as contributions to the

equally

Had the

At du e

hin.

Superannuation Fund up to 30 June 1857, while all those entering the ought the Service after that date contribute thankful nothing, and stand in an favorable position with the old servants who have borne the burden and heat of the day, of whom but three or four non reman; and of these

I am the Immor.

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were disser I neved very heoper

but it t la lenndera!

Loon C

I admit that it would have

been invidious or

difficult to misert

in the Pension Mint the peculiar clames of those whom I may calen

the Colony,

but I would.

the Pioneers

posit out that in all probability

Section 9 was

framed with this silent,

And I therefore earnestly call attention

to it.

I may

mention also that

the Secretory of State has already

so for

but only Recognized by case ans so swing the "exceptionals" (su Despatch Fr: 3

3 January

185

love

1862),

om not to the

th

rules

Tosse 161 come in Streilly judged by

orduincy of the Services, and indeed the case of the late Chief Justice Stulum bears this, for it shows that the originals Governmental Staff were admitted to be entitlest of special consideration And if tuch easiderations were chown,

to M. Huwho paid nothing

nothing towards the Superannuation Fund, and whose team of Service was only 15 years. or his thirds of my

4 follows I have a higher claim to consideration than M. Stuline, and it must also be born in muid that M. Hulmes

a. it was,

of my own,

it

Hows that

Lalary twas, as he humself admitted,

fixed