CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12] — Page 77

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The case,

and that the

appartment

of Apistant Surveyor General would

only be temporary,

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I should not on

consideration have given up my

for the rates of holding appointment, the tenure of which to be uncertam .

With reference to that portion of

the letter in which it

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he

was

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stated "that

seconded from his corps

"to enable him to accept the appont- "ment," I beg to call

Your

attention

Я вид to the London Gazette of March 16th

1869 pago appears,

in which

my

name

as seconded from the Corpo

of Royal Engineers on apprantment, Apistant Surveyor Gennal of

as

Hongtong, which I have always

considered

em

firmation of my

appointment, though it

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was not republished

in the Government Gazette, an emission,

which had I thought it would lead

to what appears to be

aw

after thought

like this, I should have endeavored

to have had rectified at the time. It will ihm be

not,

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Olen

that. I

wvas

could I have been I

seconded from my corps, until the War Office had been notified of my having received a Civil appointment. This is further confirmed, by reference to the Colonial Office Sist (of 1870) in which in the statement of

services

of

Persons holding important offices under

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