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REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, 13th December, 1889.
This is to certify that UTTER SINGH, Police Constable 580 (now Acting Sorgeant), served in this Djretreut as Assistant Collector of District Watchman's Rates from May, 1889, to April, 1889, und gave satisfaction
N. G. MITCHELL-INNES,
ACTING HEVISTAR GENERAL
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I have known Acting Sergeant No. 586, UTTER Šise, of the Hongkong Police for about eight years, and f coneider him a man of very good character, sober and steady. He has been Drill Iustracior to the fudians of the Worce for some time.
Hongkong, 16th Felmuary, 1891.
T. C. DEMISTER, MAJOR,
ADDTANT, HONGKONG POLICE,
SIR,
HONGKONG, 12th March, 1897.
I have the honour to hand you with this my Petition respecting the matter of my dismissal from the Police Service, which I regucat you will be pleased to place before His Excellency the Governor for his kind and favourable consideration.
It is very hard on me that atter eighteen years of my hari, faithful, and honest service in the Force I should bo enddenly dismissed, and deprived altogether of the emoluments I have honestly and faithfully earned, and I therefore humbly pray and entreat that my respectful representation to His Excellency will meet with that consideration which is due to a Goverment servant of my long standing.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
UTTER SINGIT, LATE INDIAN SERGEANT-MAJOR
HONGKONG POLICE FORCE.
To
THE HONOURABLE
J. II. STEWART LOCKHART,
COLONIAL SECRETARY, HONGKONG.
To
HIS EXCELLENCY
Hoyawose, 27th May, 1801.
Acting Sergeant 586, Urren BIMont, has served in the Police Force under me for twelve years, and during that time he has given me entire satisfetion, and I can strongly recmurucut him as an interpreter from the English language to the Coloquial and his own; in all I have found him a good and honest men, and as for the performances of his duties I can testify he can with care carry them out in any respect.
J. CRADOCK,
Aurusu Omer Insercrou.
Sie WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G.,
GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG AND LIS
DEPENDENCIES AND VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE SAME,
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF UTTER SINGH, OF No. 12, HOLLYWOOD ROAD, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, LATE SERGEANT-MAJOR IN THE POLICE FORCE.
MOST RESPECTFULLY REWETH:
1.--Your Petitioner enlisted in the Police Force of this Colony on the 10th day of December, 1878, az a Police Constable of the 3rd Class, and from that date obtained nine promotions, until on the 1st day of April, 1895, he became a Police Sergeant of the 1st Class and Indian Sergeant-Major or Jemadhar of the said Police Force. The following is a statement of the promotions of your Petitioner as entered in the Books of the suid Police Force,
CENTRAL POLICE STATION HONGKONG, 20th March, 1894.
This is to certify that I, the undersigned, have known Sergeant 586, UTTEL Sexcor, daring the fifteen years he has been in the Police Force of this Colony, and have much pleasure in testifying that I bave always found him an intelligent, zealous, and reliable officer, who always performe his duties to the satisfaction of his superior officers.
W. STANTON,
INSPECTOR OP Potace,
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The bearer, Forgeant Major UTTER SINGH, has done dury under me for the past sixteen years, during which time f always found hini au bonest, trustworthy man, and always very attentive to his duties as Constable-Sergeant, and he now holds the rank of Sergeant-Major.
A. MANN,
INSPECTOR.
2--From the said 10th day of December, 1878 to the 3rd day of December, 1896, when pour l'etitioner was dismissed from the said Police Force as hereinafter mentioned, your Petitioner's conduct, to the best of his knowledge and ochief, was uniformly good; he was never guilty of misconduct or breach of discipline, he performed his duties satisfactorily. and hore a very good character, as could be evidenced from the copies of certificates, warked A to E, herewith attached. Your Petitioner begs to cite here only Major Dempster's remarks as given in bis certificate dated the 16th February, 1891, thai "I consider him a man of very good character, suber and stendy," and your Petitioner further begs to all that during the fountre of his service from December, 1878, to December, 1896, he never applied for and never luvd hard even such a short leave of absence as even a month's leave in the interval.
3.-On the sul dri day of December, 1896, your Petitioner was dismissed from the said Police Poree by the Hovourable the Captain Superintendent of Police, but your Peritioner honestly believes that the is aware of no such misconduct or neglect of duty on his part as to beft him for steh a summary dismissal as he been given him, without any recognition of his full eighteen years' services in the Force.
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