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man of my Experience.

And moreover

having learnt.

Since addressing Your Lordship that Communication that the

Post of Surveyor General at Hong Kong was vacant or being about to become so, Aud-

as Sir Arthur Kennedy in a

from Hong Kong of July is pleased to say

Would be

a

letter

Last

to me that it

great relief and

satisfaction to him

to him if he couldn

Succeed in getting

me

to

Super-

intend the Public Works of the Colony, I am now emboldened

beg Your Lordship's kind

remembrance

of my former Application and Earnestly to

solicit that your Lordship will be pleased to bear it in mind In Connexion with the Appoint-

ment at Hong Kong, which I feel confident. I could the more fill to Your Lordship's Satisfac-

tion And to

my

own credit as it

Incidentally happens that I have devoted many years of my professional life specially, to

Architecture and to the

Valuation of Building lands,

requirements which I

above all others are

m

the

Any person prele

post. I have

(Signed) F[rancis] ...

Engineer

to

the Government of Sierra Leone

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