CO129-197 - Governor Hennessy - 1882 [1-2] — Page 314

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to retain my personal allowance, an considering the leught of my of nearly twenty three years, during which priod I have been always led to believe that I have perpraced sig sires to the satisfaction of my superiors and served Her desjesty's - Goverment with geal and fitility,

• would beg to point out that ; with less than thus term of service, First Clerks in the Treasury & Audit : Survey Seperluant and Energistiney ham beri harning muore than wury prevent pay, c. cambined with my personal allowance. that is to say. they are paid at the rate of $200 a mouth, where as I could only get $180 a mouth; that

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in Offee, the lake IN. JIN Almada, had a personal allowance of $80 a mente", receiving $40 a mouth after a certain term of service, and an additional

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of $40 a smith on the devrins. of his brother ; the then Cheaf Clork in the Colonial Secretarge offer, consideration of his not having been prausted to that office. I reasoniquity submit that I am placed in a n similar pozition to that of predeces that though I have been frauded to the post of Feres Clerk, have nevertheless ben superseded by another officer in the port of chief. Clerk. It is not my object at all! question for

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