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M-Meade.

In two other recent cases beside, this hj: 23553,815552,

Major Chayter has not signed the certificate

in the usual terms; it may be that he is rather a punctilious Officer, but should suspect that he is only doing the duty Conscientiously, there should be some evidence that in such cases the point is considered by the higher authorities; instead of which in all these cases

Wastewarts signs the

certificate in the last head of the paper of particular without the smallest regard to the 18th Section of the minute

I would inform him to Des Vaux that the Secretary of State would not object to sanction

the

• proposed allowance of $64 a year, if the local Govt had satisfied themselves that the

indifferent conduct to which Major Chaytor alluded in the certificate of character did not

deduction under the 10th section of the Zus am 24/12

Call for minute

Reg

JNR93/12/07.

aboun

36070

Sir,

501

Government House, Hong Kong, 27th October, 1887.

I have the honour

to inform you

On

the

that I have,

recommendation

of the

Acting Superintendent of the

Gaol, Major R.J. Chayter, and

Right Honourable Henry T. Holland, Bart, M.P. GCMG,

Nov.