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Enclosure.

C.O.

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Are 5 M 00

To the Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN. P. C. M. P.

Secretary of State for the Colonies

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The humble Petition of the UNDERSIGNED

JOHN JAMES Mc MICHAEL

MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH

On the first day of March 1893 your Petitioner was

appointed an Ordinary Warder in the General Prisons Service!

in Ireland and continued to serve in that position until

the twenty fourth day of October 1895.

Your Petitioner was then appointed as Harder in the

Victoria Caol Hong Kong and was promised that hin services

under the Imperial Government would count towards

pension,

Your Petitioner arrived at Hong Kong on the twelfth day

of December 1895 and assumed his duties as an Ordinary

Warder of the Victoria Caol.

In July 1996 your

Petitioner was promoted to the rank of Principal Warder

and held that position until the thirty first day of May