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My Lord,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 3rd instant, and to state that I am at present in receipt of a salary of $800 per mensem, rising by annual increments of $100 to $1,200. I have at the same time to state that I have no private means, and that the foregoing represents my present total emoluments.

I have not the presumption to offer any opinion as to the adequacy or inadequacy of my present salary, and I should not wish to trouble your Lordship with the consideration of the adequacy or inadequacy of my salary as Police magistrate or as Coroner.

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

[Signature]

Police magistrate

[Stamp or notation]

72

[Date: 5th April 1888]

Captain Superintendent of Police

Police Office

HONGKONG, 5th April 1888.

I have the honour to apply that His Excellency the Governor may be pleased to submit my name for the Colonial Treasurership, should that office become vacant through the appointment of Mr. Russell to other duties.

2. My qualifications are as follows:

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AEGE 14 MAY

[Clr.]

[Notation or signature]

He clasy.

He chreure 4

tronic de

He clasy.

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My Lord, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 3rd instant, and to state that I am at present in receipt of a salary of $800 per mensem, rising by annual increments of $100 to $1,200. I have at the same time to state that I have no private means, and that the foregoing represents my present total emoluments. I have not the presumption to offer any opinion as to the adequacy or inadequacy of my present salary, and I should not wish to trouble your Lordship with the consideration of the adequacy or inadequacy of my salary as Police magistrate or as Coroner. I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, [Signature] Police magistrate [Stamp or notation] 72 [Date: 5th April 1888] Captain Superintendent of Police Police Office HONGKONG, 5th April 1888. I have the honour to apply that His Excellency the Governor may be pleased to submit my name for the Colonial Treasurership, should that office become vacant through the appointment of Mr. Russell to other duties. 2. My qualifications are as follows: [Illegible or unclear text due to OCR damage: དྷཱ༣ ༔༢༡༩ 'ཀm འཆུཧཱཏ་] [...] [Page 72] AEGE 14 MAY [Clr.] [Notation or signature] He clasy. He chreure 4 tronic de He clasy.
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mcrcase to

my present

salary, and I should not

wish to trouble

your Lordship with the

consideration of the adequacy

Ον

madequacy of

zalary

the Coroner's

Ihave the honour to be,

My Lord,

10. No 863.

Your

most obedient Servant

Police magistrate

*

72

He chreure 4

Caplans Superintendent of Police 15-plonial-Leuten

Police Office

fir,

AEGE 14 MAY

Houghong 5th April 1888.

I have the honour to apply Hat His Excellency the governor many

The bleased to subruit my name for the

Zolonial Treasurership, should that

office become vacaur through the

appointtuent of The Russell to other

duties

2. Jury

are

follows

དྷཱ༣ ༔༢༡༩ ༨ 'ཀm འཆུཧཱཏ་

tronici de

He clasy.

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