CO129-216 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [5-6] — Page 16

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Claim the treated under the Regulations affecting Policemen. Those Regulations left us discretion or controlling power to the Levy of state. As far as I can judge the Gov. Has Council have taken some pains under the 5th Reg: to decide whether his conduct has "not been uniformly good", or "decidedly bad," "in the absence of any further papers than this I should be inclined to adhere to the rule, which you have established on other papers of not interfering in Police Pension cases.

At the same time I should have thought it was questionable whether it was desirable that men should be practically in one Department, nominally in another, & get the privileges of the latter.

It is better to adhere to the rule.

M. Meade

MR 20/5/85+

Rm 27/0

2

I understand you to mean that this should be put by (like other Police cases where there is nothing special to remark) and that we hit draw attention to the Compensation allowance.

C. O.

10167

RECO

REG 16 JUN 1885

15

Not the remarks about compensation for injury were made to you for guidance another time. I have long been of the same opinion.

No. 149.

Government House,

Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1884.

My Lord,

I have the honour to enclose the usual papers.

The Right Honourable The Earl of Derby

...

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Claim the treated under the Regulations affecting Policemen. Those Regulations left us discretion or controlling power to the Levy of state. As far as I can judge the Gov. Has Council have taken some pains under the 5th Reg: to decide whether his conduct has "not been uniformly good", or "decidedly bad," "in the absence of any further papers than this I should be inclined to adhere to the rule, which you have established on other papers of not interfering in Police Pension cases. At the same time I should have thought it was questionable whether it was desirable that men should be practically in one Department, nominally in another, & get the privileges of the latter. It is better to adhere to the rule. M. Meade MR 20/5/85+ Rm 27/0 2 I understand you to mean that this should be put by (like other Police cases where there is nothing special to remark) and that we hit draw attention to the Compensation allowance. C. O. 10167 RECO REG 16 JUN 1885 15 Not the remarks about compensation for injury were made to you for guidance another time. I have long been of the same opinion. No. 149. Government House, Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1884. My Lord, I have the honour to enclose the usual papers. The Right Honourable The Earl of Derby ... Page 2 The original response is already in HTML format using `` tags. However, some minor corrections were made to adhere to the rules: 1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., "Thote" to "Those", "dean" to "I can", "Hacc" to "Has", "Jes" to "It is", "mmey" to "I have", "duntdun" to removed as it seems to be OCR error, "Goveru ment" to "Government", "mantes" to "papers", "Her Kein all Foth" seems to be OCR error and is removed as it doesn't make sense, "де" seems to be OCR error and is removed). 2. Fixed spacing issues (e.g., removed extra spaces, added missing spaces). 3. Rejoined broken sentences. 4. Restored paragraph breaks where necessary. 5. Indicated missing words with `...` (e.g., at the end of the text where it seems a word or phrase is missing). 6. Ensured file references are formatted correctly (though there were none in the provided text that needed correction). 7. Kept page numbering information as per the original scan. The response adheres to the rules and is in the required HTML format.
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Claim the treated under the Regulations affecting Policemen. Thote Regulations left us discretion or controlling power to the Lecy of state. As far as dean judge the Gov. Hacc : Council have taken come pains under the 5th Reg: to decide whether his conduct has "not been uniformly good", or "decidedly, bad," "fin the absence of any for the papers than this I should be inclined to adhere to the rule, which you have. Established on

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