CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9] — Page 61

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with a salary of $8160 a year

in addition to which he

has been given precedence after members of Executive Council.

(e)

Mr Stewart, whose

service is three weeks more

than mine, was

a Cadet, having

been promoted from the

Central School to the

Magistracy

in 1881, was

in 1883 further promoted

to the Registrar Generalship, and has recently been made a member of both Councils.

Lieut Colonel Dunlop, Inspector General of Police, Straits Settlements, has been made a C.M.G. He is

considerably junior to me, and the Police Force

at Singapore has been remodelled on the pattern of the Force under

my Command.

4.

I have quoted these

cases, unactuated by the

smallest desire to cavil

at or to complain of these appointments, but with the simple purpose of

suggesting, that,

as for over eighteen years I have commanded

one of the most difficult departments

in the Colony,

I consider my services are entitled to recognition,

especially as the recent promotion of my junior

must tend to make the residents,

who are unversed

in the motives that regulate

Appointments, feel...

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59 with a salary of $8160 a year in addition to which he has been given precedence after members of Executive Council. (e) Mr Stewart, whose service is three weeks more than mine, was a Cadet, having been promoted from the Central School to the Magistracy in 1881, was in 1883 further promoted to the Registrar Generalship, and has recently been made a member of both Councils. Lieut Colonel Dunlop, Inspector General of Police, Straits Settlements, has been made a C.M.G. He is considerably junior to me, and the Police Force at Singapore has been remodelled on the pattern of the Force under my Command. 4. I have quoted these cases, unactuated by the smallest desire to cavil at or to complain of these appointments, but with the simple purpose of suggesting, that, as for over eighteen years I have commanded one of the most difficult departments in the Colony, I consider my services are entitled to recognition, especially as the recent promotion of my junior must tend to make the residents, who are unversed in the motives that regulate Appointments, feel...
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with a salary of $8160 a year

in addition to which he

has been given precedence after members of Executive Ibermcil.

(e)

Mr Stewart, whose

service is three weeks more

but who

than

mine aww

was

zeven

CL

the

Cadet, having

been promoted from t

Central School to the

Magistracy

n 1881, was

in 1883 further promoted

the

to Registrar Generalship, and has recently been made a member of both Councils.

+f, Lieut Colonel Dunlop, Inspector General of Police, Straits Settlements, has been made a C.IN. G. Ste

شد

considerably junior dō me, and the Police Force

at

-at Singapore has been remodelled on the patter of the Force under

my

Command.

4.

I have quoted these

cases, unactuated by the

smallest desire to cavil

at or to complain of these appointments, but with the simple purpose of

suggesting, that,

as

for

over eighteen years I have Command of

orre

of the

most difficult departments

in the

Colony,

pristified in

that

lo

rry

I

considering

services

are entitled

ognition,

e reco

especially

nore

as the recent

-promotion of my junior

must lend to make the

residents,

who

in the motives that re

are unversd

regulati

Apperritmeal

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