CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888 — Page 361

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fiven, thiren with authority, any grounde

for supposing that he was

a daim to pension

Serving with

The letter

of the year 1858 enclosed in this despatch

to not pavention pension, but they five

impressin

me the idea that at that time heither he nor the Hongtang Gout had the least idea of his hatching a regular public office with pension privileges attached.

& the provisional

as the salary, Sebab

wa

than

on the Itimates, he could have

Clain

top on that ground aloud, quite apart from his private practice; & the Corresp : of 1862, alluded to withs Minutes on 9443/87, then thatvers Lom after the Act of 1859, before the Stone After Hongkong pansin minute, the old treasury sale was known in the Colony.

Moreover his own account of what happened in 1874 shows that up to that

dat he did not consider himself entitled spencion

I would have been milepossible

"Khave put his office in the fixed cotal =

Wishment then, tat-

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the

Lams

Fore

khave told him that maccount of his

private practice his sight to perananation

would knot be recognized; possibly Sir A.kenned, H-Auction both werlooked the bearing offerta hii private practice on the pension question, perhaps on the otterhand the sile

too well

Known in Houghag to leave aut doubt on the point, the question

had certaing been considered in

the

Case of Dr Marray, & dan prally

Confident that it also probe witte

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case of some subordinates on

Survey a Generali Despartinant, and ther

this to the Crown Lolicitor.

I think you might look if,

the time his office

at

was Frontheared

From the Provisional to the Fixed Entatt

any correspi with the her state. the jual took place; tig hot we might fend this to

Fold the Yor", I dinething Alumine Whether there was mything

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record

at the time of such transfer bearing on Drt's contention that his right to