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granted to Mr Thomsett's

predecessor.

4.

the bon

Paragraph 7 of Mr. Stanhope's Despatch W. 46 of the 25th October, 1886, does not appear to have been communicated

the

the

to the HongKong Civil Service, Officer Administering Government thinking, apparently,

that it was not necess

necessary

to

do so, until the whole Pension

question had been settled;

and the

ce is that

consequence

the rule laid down in Lord

Carnarvon's

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Curnarvon's Despatch Nex of the

15th January, 1876, has always - been applied retrospectively- here up

to the present time. The promise given

5.

by Lord Carnarvon in the

despatch referred

to

was

communicated to the Service on the 244th March, 1876, by - order of Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy. It was also inserted by the Governor in paragraph

of the HongKong Pension

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Minute, and received the

approval