CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8] — Page 62

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which in his opinion renders his return desirable.

J.

three

He applies for three and half months vacation leave in June 1887.

with the three and a half months leave already received he considers that he is entitled to that amount.

1884 November 5th arrives in Colony

1885 no leave

1886 2½ months leave taken

1887 3½ months leave applied for.

The Officer Administering Government is pleased to grant only 2 months of the leave in 1887, His Excellency is of opinion that he has no authority to grant more.

I have respectfully to appeal against this decision.

It does not appear to be in harmony with the spirit of the dispatch by Appendix A.

Appendix "Chief Justice's letter" by which the privilege of extended leave was granted: Dispatch SS. Hongkong 1866.

"This alteration of the existing rule will not introduce any diversity into the rules which regulate the leave of absence of Colonial Officers, it will be of greater advantage to them, as they have asked for it, they will receive pay during their absence and it will enable them to absent themselves for recruiting their health for some considerable period at an earlier period of their service.

The leave taken in 1886 must, I submit, be held to consist of the two months not taken in 1885 and five weeks of 1886 leave - leaving three and a half still due from 1886 which with the two months

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which in his opinion renders his return desirable. J. three He applies for three and half months vacation leave in June 1887. with the three and a half months leave already received he considers that he is entitled to that amount. 1884 November 5th arrives in Colony 1885 no leave 1886 months leave taken 1887 months leave applied for. The Officer Administering Government is pleased to grant only 2 months of the leave in 1887, His Excellency is of opinion that he has no authority to grant more. I have respectfully to appeal against this decision. It does not appear to be in harmony with the spirit of the dispatch by Appendix A. Appendix "Chief Justice's letter" by which the privilege of extended leave was granted: Dispatch SS. Hongkong 1866. "This alteration of the existing rule will not introduce any diversity into the rules which regulate the leave of absence of Colonial Officers, it will be of greater advantage to them, as they have asked for it, they will receive pay during their absence and it will enable them to absent themselves for recruiting their health for some considerable period at an earlier period of their service. The leave taken in 1886 must, I submit, be held to consist of the two months not taken in 1885 and five weeks of 1886 leave - leaving three and a half still due from 1886 which with the two months ## Notes on processing: 1. Removed OCR errors and corrected spellings. 2. Rejoined broken sentences. 3. Restored paragraph breaks. 4. Removed extra spaces and corrected hyphenation or line-break artifacts. 5. Reordered text to make logical sense, particularly for the table-like data regarding leave taken. 6. Applied Markdown formatting for structure. 7. Removed non-ASCII characters not relevant to the content. 8. Preserved original content as much as possible, without rephrasing or rewriting. The final output is in HTML format as requested, using `` for paragraphs.
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which in his

opinion penders his

-return desirable .

J.

three

He applies for have

and half months vucation leave in

June 1887-

لنصر ہے

with the tive and a

half months leave already received

hi considers that he is entitled to that amount.

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leave

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