Your Petitioner begs to bring to your notice the vindictiveness displayed by Captain May, who in order to make his baseless suspicions of bribery appear justified, has not scrupled to enlist in his cause the scoundrels who have been brought forward to make untruthful statements behind your Petitioner's back, such as those sent to him on the 10th of September last.
11. Your Petitioner has brought the above facts to your notice with a view to persuading you, Sir, to review your former decision.
He respectfully submits he ought not to be punished on mere suspicion, nor on evidence furnished behind his back, until he is afforded an opportunity of rebutting it, and that if on such evidence he is deemed guilty of a want of vigilance he has, considering his long, extremely onerous, and acknowledged valuable services, been very harshly treated.
He therefore begs that you will accede to his request so far as to review his case, and hopes that after so doing you will feel it is only an act of justice
1. to grant him the full pension he is entitled to,
2. as well as a pension on the $20 a month he received as Examiner of Weights and Measures, that you will treat his case as one of resignation instead of dismissal, and direct that a police discharge to that effect be supplied to him and that his good conduct medal
3.
4. be restored, that his passage fare to England be refunded to him, and finally that the prohibition against his
5.
6. residence in Hong Kong may be removed.
Your Petitioner is,
Sir,
Your most humble obedient servant.
Branton
62 May, 1899
460
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dictiveness displayed by Captain May, who in order to make his baseless suspicions of bribery appear
Justified, has not scrupled to enlist in his cause the scoundrels who have been brought forward to make untruthful statements behind your Petitioner's back, such as those sent to him on the 10th of September
last.
11. Your Petitioner has brought the above facts to your notice with a view to persuading you, Sir, to review
your former decision.
He respectfully submits he ought not to be punished
on mere suspicion, nor on evidence furnished behind his back, until he is afforded an opportunity of rebutting it, and that if on such evidence he is deemed guilty of a want of vigilence he has, considering his long, extremely onerous, and acknowledged valuable services,
been very harshly treated.
He therefore begs that you will accede to his request
so far es to review his case, and hopes that after so
doing you will feel it is only an act of justice
1.
to grant him the full pension he is entitled to,
2.
as well as a pension on the $20 a month he received
as Examiner of Weights and Measures, that you will
treat his case as one of resignation instead of dis-
3. missal, and direct that a police discharge to that effect
be supplied to him and that his good conduct medal
4.
be restored, that his passage fare to England be refunded
J to him, and finally that the prohibition against his
6.
residence in HongKong may be removed.
Your Petitioner is,
sir,
Your most humble obedient servant.
Branton
62 May. 1899
460
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