CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5] — Page 453

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The Right Honourable... the Secretary of State was pleased to authorise the increase of my salary by £100 per annum.

£50 in virtue of my duties as Deputy Registrar of Marriages and £50 as personal allowance and in recognition of long services; His Lordship having stated the grounds on which he was pleased to grant me this increase.

In reply I have, respectfully to submit that there was no intention to deprive me of an office the emolument of which were greater than the increment of my salary : 2nd The state of my health during the last summer, and my advanced years indicate to me that my retirement from the Service cannot be long postponed, and in seeking that retirement I had hoped to induce His Excellency to recommend to The Majesty's Secretary of State that I should be allowed to count on my salary as First Registrar in this office and Valuator, which I not unreasonably expected to hold concurrently whilst in the Service.

Having regard therefore to the present and the future and the reasonableness of my position, I have every confidence that His Excellency will consider my case and take care that...

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The Right Honourable... the Secretary of State was pleased to authorise the increase of my salary by £100 per annum. £50 in virtue of my duties as Deputy Registrar of Marriages and £50 as personal allowance and in recognition of long services; His Lordship having stated the grounds on which he was pleased to grant me this increase. In reply I have, respectfully to submit that there was no intention to deprive me of an office the emolument of which were greater than the increment of my salary : 2nd The state of my health during the last summer, and my advanced years indicate to me that my retirement from the Service cannot be long postponed, and in seeking that retirement I had hoped to induce His Excellency to recommend to The Majesty's Secretary of State that I should be allowed to count on my salary as First Registrar in this office and Valuator, which I not unreasonably expected to hold concurrently whilst in the Service. Having regard therefore to the present and the future and the reasonableness of my position, I have every confidence that His Excellency will consider my case and take care that...
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The Right Honourable... the Scoretary of State was pleased. to authoring the increase of my salary by £100-per

£ 100 per annum

£50 in wirtue of my duties Definty Registrar of allarriages

Av

and 256

As

personal allormie

and mis recognition of long services; Wir Lordship having stated the which he was pleased groemds

to guint mo

In increase of setory I h, respectfully to submit that there was no intention to deprive me of an office the emolument of wheel were greater than the increment of my salary : 2nd The state of my health during the last summer, and my advanced

years indicatif

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me that my Retirement from the Service annot be long postponed, and in seeking that Retirement I had hoped to induce

His Balloney to recommend to The Majestys Secretary of State

that I should be allowed to Count

on my

pension

my salary as First

Rect in this office And Valnator

which I not imreasonably

offices.

expected to hold Concurrently whill in the Service.

Was m

Having regard therefore

to the present and the future and the reasonablenes of my Thave sury Confidence that this

Excellency will consider

mich

position and take care that

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