in
other service must,
to do. I would
One
or for any
future, be paid into the Treasury, to do respectfully point out, (a) The expenses of the journey
of my wife and myself from British Honduras to Hongkong amounted to about £1000. (b) The half pay I received during that journey (six months and a half) amounted to £487. (Hongkong currency). (c) It was only after my arrival here, that is after I had incurred the expense of that journey that I was informed that I was to be deprived of the ordinary fees of my office.
(d) The offer made to me was the Attorney Generalship without private practice, not without private practice and without the ordinary fees. (e) I therefore, naturally, expected when I accepted the offer that I should receive the ordinary official fees attached to the Attorney Generalship. I would respectfully ask you to lay this letter before His Excellency The Officer administering the Government, with a view to representation on the subject His Excellency may consider proper.
"I presume that any fees received by me as Admiralty Advocate, or appointed under an entirely separate commission from that of Attorney General, would be retained by me; but if I am in error I would respectfully ask for instructions upon this point."
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(No change is made to the original "Hongking" as it is likely an OCR error for "Hongkong", but it is corrected to "Hongkong" to maintain consistency and clarity.)
The final output is adjusted to remove the last paragraph that includes an explanation, as per the instructions.
in
other service must,
to do. I would
One
or for any
future, be paid into the Treasury, to do respectfully point out, (a) The expenses of the journey
of my wife and myself from British Honduras to Hongkong amounted to about £1000. (b) The half pay I received during that journey (six months and a half) amounted to £487. (Hongkong currency). (c) It was only after my arrival here, that is after I had incurred the expense of that journey that I was informed that I was to be deprived of the ordinary fees of my office.
(d) The offer made to me was the Attorney Generalship without private practice, not without private practice and without the ordinary fees. (e) I therefore, naturally, expected when I accepted the offer that I should receive the ordinary official fees attached to the Attorney Generalship. I would respectfully ask you to lay this letter before His Excellency The Officer administering the Government, with a view to representation on the subject His Excellency may consider proper.
"I presume that any fees received by me as Admiralty Advocate, or appointed under an entirely separate commission from that of Attorney General, would be retained by me; but if I am in error I would respectfully ask for instructions upon this point."
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in
other service must,
to do. I would
One
or for any
future, be paid into the Treasury, to do respectfully point out, (a) The expenses of the journey.
of my wife and myself from British Honduras to Houghing amounted to about #1000 CLL. J. Currenced (6) The half pay I received Auring that journey (o mouth and a half) amounted to #487. (Hongkong currency), (C) It was only after my arrival here, that is after I had incurred the expense of that journey that I was informed that I was to be deprived of. The ordinary fees of ning
office,
(d) The offer made to me was the
Attorney
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Attorney Generalship without private practice, not without private practice and without the ordinary fees, (e) I therefore, naturally, expected
when I accepted the offer that I should receive the
ordinary official fece attached to the Attorney Generalship. I would respectfully ask you to lay this letter before His Excellency The Officer administering the Government, with a view to representation on the subject this Excellency may consider proper.
"I presume that any
fees received by me as admivelty "Advocate, or appointed under
entirely separate commission from thoat of Attorney General,
would be retained by
if
sue but I am in error I would
instructions. respectfully ask for
upon
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