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Assistant Superintendents of Police, I subruiet that, this

reason no

longer exist.

The Captain Superintendent

in his letter no 40 of

the

23h February 1873, forwarding

an

application from the

then Superintendent of the

Chinese Contingent (Mur

Wodehouse) for

absence writes:-

leave

of

"

"be offered.

ever

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after

" the expiry of 16 weeks,

"

is so small that it

"would in

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way

"compensate for the "additional expense. "thrown on the officer. "should he be appointed.

"Acking Superintendent of

"the Chinese Contingent.

X

x x x X X

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X X

X

You

X

X X X X

"With

reference to this

"matter I have the

X

"

honour to suggest

that

one of the Inspectors

" should, temporarily, be

"appointed Chief Inspector-

"The amount of

[1

remunerahon that can

I

The duties of my office.

have increased since the

post of Ceputy Superintendent

was abolished. and I

venture to ask for this

step of promotion, with

a

view of being placed in a position to discharge. them

more

efficiently.

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