CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4] — Page 526

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I concur in the view which you have taken in this matter, and request that, in forming my decision to make Ladds, you will call his attention to the fourth paragraph of the letter from the Secretary of the 30th of June 1887, a copy of which is enclosed. In this paragraph, it is stated that as one of the conditions of his appointment, which was accepted when promoted to his position from this department, his services were to be available for any duties upon which the Government might think it expedient to employ him - meaning thereby services suitable to his qualifications.

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I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (`Refirforces` to no correction as the original word is unclear, `vaccine` potentially to `Vaccination`, `S.` to `Secretary`, `Jane` to `June`, `будите` removed as it seems to be a non-English word likely due to OCR error, `Reitimitly` to no correction as it's unclear, `Exation` to `Examination`, `perfeksimal` to no correction as it's unclear, `affortiment` to `appointment`, `limed` to `limited`, `od` to `to`, `tibe` to `to be`, `for,` to `Government`, `wiress` to no correction as it's unclear, `W` to `the`, `Night` removed as it doesn't make sense in the context, `think itable` to `think it expedient`, `hum-` to `him`). 2. Rejoined broken sentences and corrected spacing issues. 3. Removed or corrected non-meaningful characters and words likely resulting from OCR errors (`с`, `の`). 4. Applied Markdown formatting is not required as per the final instruction; instead, I used HTML

for paragraphs. 5. Preserved original content as much as possible while making necessary corrections for clarity.

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I concur in the view which you have taken in this matter, and request that, in forming my decision to make Ladds, you will call his attention to the fourth paragraph of the letter from the Secretary of the 30th of June 1887, a copy of which is enclosed. In this paragraph, it is stated that as one of the conditions of his appointment, which was accepted when promoted to his position from this department, his services were to be available for any duties upon which the Government might think it expedient to employ him - meaning thereby services suitable to his qualifications. Page 521 I made the following changes: 1. Corrected spelling errors (`Refirforces` to no correction as the original word is unclear, `vaccine` potentially to `Vaccination`, `S.` to `Secretary`, `Jane` to `June`, `будите` removed as it seems to be a non-English word likely due to OCR error, `Reitimitly` to no correction as it's unclear, `Exation` to `Examination`, `perfeksimal` to no correction as it's unclear, `affortiment` to `appointment`, `limed` to `limited`, `od` to `to`, `tibe` to `to be`, `for,` to `Government`, `wiress` to no correction as it's unclear, `W` to `the`, `Night` removed as it doesn't make sense in the context, `think itable` to `think it expedient`, `hum-` to `him`). 2. Rejoined broken sentences and corrected spacing issues. 3. Removed or corrected non-meaningful characters and words likely resulting from OCR errors (`с`, `の`). 4. Applied Markdown formatting is not required as per the final instruction; instead, I used HTML for paragraphs. 5. Preserved original content as much as possible while making necessary corrections for clarity.
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work which Refirforces

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