CO129-114 - MacDonnell - 1866 [7-8] — Page 89

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

that AAA is entually spent in

the Colony

D

22 Sep.

Boughing, 10th July 1866.

Bis Excellency

In 85859/11

Governor Sir D. J. Macdonnell. 6. 18.

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May it please your Excellency We the undersigned bivil sowants of the brown in the Colony of Hongkong respectfully request that. you will favorably represent to the "Secretary of State for the Colonies

the hardships under which we labor regarding

-Leave of Absence and Retirement.

The regulations for the have been framed to meet the requirements of the Colonies generally; but we submit that officers living in this _ perhaps the most unhealthy chmate in Her Majesty's dominions_ deserve some special consideration,

and that a continuous residence here

years must to,

must to some extent

of six undermine the strongest constitution. "This fact, for it may be called so, has been fully recognised by all Military duckrities ; and the Horeign

office

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