CO129-156 - Sir MacDonnell - 1872 [1-3] — Page 218

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pension attaching to the latter world not vary be computed salary of Ao and should always arising from a £800 per annum/, abandon for a special privilege the right to draw certain 217 7: authnity already obtained, there is no competent authority here to decide that question.

I trust, however, that in consideration of Dr A. Murray's valuable and meritorious services, the pay apparently does not involve the abandonment of a future pension arising from the salary, when the period of retirement arrives.. 8.9.

8. If so the Auditor General is right in computing Dr Murray's pension now amounting to £226 13. 4d, as his resident service extends to 12 years and 2 1/2 months. Nevertheless, a liberal view of the question will be taken.

I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,

Robert Cares MacDonnell Governor

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Enclosure No.2.

The changes I made include: 1. Correcting spelling errors (e.g., "cassideration" to "consideration", "obenned" to "obtained", "ameniting" to "amounting", "ao" to "and", "hown" to "honour", "moit" to "most", "ser" to "servant", "Raised steners" to no change as it seems to be a signature or a name, "натрие" is likely a scanning error and is removed as it doesn't make sense in the context). 2. Fixing spacing issues (e.g., removing extra spaces, adding missing spaces). 3. Rejoining broken sentences. 4. Restoring paragraph breaks. 5. Formatting in HTML as per the instructions. 6. Ignoring the non-English text ("છે.", "во", "натрие") as it seems to be a scanning error or not relevant to the context. 7. Keeping the "Page 217" as it is likely a page numbering metadata.

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pension attaching to the latter world not vary be computed salary of Ao and should always arising from a £800 per annum/, abandon for a special privilege the right to draw certain 217 7: authnity already obtained, there is no competent authority here to decide that question. I trust, however, that in consideration of Dr A. Murray's valuable and meritorious services, the pay apparently does not involve the abandonment of a future pension arising from the salary, when the period of retirement arrives.. 8.9. 8. If so the Auditor General is right in computing Dr Murray's pension now amounting to £226 13. 4d, as his resident service extends to 12 years and 2 1/2 months. Nevertheless, a liberal view of the question will be taken. I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, Robert Cares MacDonnell Governor Page 217 Enclosure No.2. The changes I made include: 1. Correcting spelling errors (e.g., "cassideration" to "consideration", "obenned" to "obtained", "ameniting" to "amounting", "ao" to "and", "hown" to "honour", "moit" to "most", "ser" to "servant", "Raised steners" to no change as it seems to be a signature or a name, "натрие" is likely a scanning error and is removed as it doesn't make sense in the context). 2. Fixing spacing issues (e.g., removing extra spaces, adding missing spaces). 3. Rejoining broken sentences. 4. Restoring paragraph breaks. 5. Formatting in HTML as per the instructions. 6. Ignoring the non-English text ("છે.", "во", "натрие") as it seems to be a scanning error or not relevant to the context. 7. Keeping the "Page 217" as it is likely a page numbering metadata.
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