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In reply to your letter of the 4th instant, announcing your intention to accept a reduced pension and leave Hong Kong, I am directed to inform you that the Officer Administering the Government allows you till the 31st December, 1898, for the settling up of your affairs. The pension which has accumulated since the date of your dismissal will be paid to you here in dollars on the eve of your departure from the Colony.
Your passage to England will not be paid, nor will your first-class good conduct medal be returned to you.
The usual departmental certificate of service is enclosed.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant,
T. Sercombe Smith1
Acting Colonial Secretary.
1 Mr W. Stanton.
The departmental certificate simply certified that your Petitioner joined the Hong Kong Police on the 12th March 1873, and was dismissed on the 2nd September, 1897. 8.- Sometime after the receipt of the letter No 1784 your Petitioner received from England the following letter, that had been sent from the Colonial Office to A. P. Pease,39q M.P.
No 3561
Downing Street.
19th August 1898.
Sir,
With reference to the letter from this Department of the 28th February last, regarding the dismissal of ex-Inspector Stanton from the Hong Kong Police Force, I am directed by Mr Secretary Chamberlain to inform you that after a full consideration of this officer's case he has decided that he cannot be reinstated in the Police Force, but has directed that he should be granted a special pension calculated on his actual period of service in the Colony but with a deduction of 20 per cent on account of his want of vigilance in failing to discover and ...
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in reply to your letter of the 4th instant, announcing your intention to accept a reduced pension and leave HongKong,1 em directed to inform you that the Officer Administering the Government allows you till the 31st December,1898, for the settling up of your affairs. The pension which has accumulated since the date of your dismissal will be paid to you here in dollars on the
eve of your departure from the Colony.
Your passage to Angland will not be paid,nor will your first class good conduct medal be returned to you.
The usual departmental certificate of service is enclosed,
1 have the honour to be,
sir,
Your obedient servant
Mr W.Stanton.
1 T.Sercombe Smith'
Acting Colonial Secretary.
The departmental certificate simply certified that your Petitioner joined the HongKong Police on the 12th March 1873, and was dismissed on the 2nd September,1897. 8.- Sometime after the receipt of the letter No 1784 your Petitioner received from England the following letter, that had been sent from the Colonial office to A.2.Pease.39q.M.P.
No 3561
Downing Street.
19th August 1898.
sir,
With reference to the letter from this Department
of the 28th February last,regarding the dismissal of
ex
M
Inspector Stanton from the HongKong Police force,
1 am directed by Mr Secretary Chamberlain to inform you that after a full consideration of this officers case
he has decided that he cannot be reinstated in the Police Force, but has directed that he should be granted a special pension calculated on his actual period of service in the Colony but with a deduction of 20 per cent on account of his want of vigilance in failing to discover and
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