CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12] — Page 31

you

to beg of bis Excellency the Governor to allow one time, and not to call

upon

me

immediately, to hay into

What

the Freasury, werk is to me, is

an amount.

large

Dis Excellency will, I bust, take into consideration the very small Salary which a Student Interpreter receives a Salary barely

the most necissey sufficient to cover requirements of life in the Park, and which, I need hardly add, does not allow of the accumulation of

any Savings..

Further I would call bis Excellence's attention to the fact that although in the opinion of the

Aborish Surgeon it was

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absolutely

necesary for me to procure change

of air after I became convalescent, it would have been impossible

yet

for

Me

to obtain that change if

the Government had not provided

me with a fraßage.–

It was scarcely to be effected that out of a Salary of $80 fir

mensem. I could have saved f

for

any

purpose, and I would

perfectfully state that had &

received no

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assistance from the Government I must either have thrown impell on the

generosity

of my friends in the Service, o I must have awaited the effects of