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return from Japan, leaving him but two

wusts to recruit at an

exxpense for Board.

and Lodging noceeding that of the most expensive Hold in Londons.

Deems

As however all medical testimony uniform and decided as to the

be enabled li

neepily for a long leave of absence from China to recruit the health of those who do suffer, I hust

you may consider favorably the application to be permitted to draw 1/1⁄2 salary for ore fifch instead of one sixch of ten resident service, loguhin wich half in lien of one third I paseage allowance going and reburning:

I confess that having myself devoted the best part of my life to the Colonial

1

Service, I

am no

naturally disprosed to

(

sympachise with members of that Service who find themselves imfavorably

-placed as compared seich Offices in the Diplomatic Department: The latter

solicited by already the privileges

possess

the

Civil Service here, with the still

greater

advantage of living in for healthier chimals.

8.

Wich

regard to the request of the

memorialists for

an

alteration in clause &

of the Pension Minute, to enable a person

at

fifty year, or

or when an Officer shall have completed 20 years service, to retire on any pension which his services may

I do not are, if the Medical

have earized,

testimony is reliable, why Officers who have given

the amornit of worst considued to

deserve a

pension, should be delamed