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leave

pay,

take with him his Aide-de-camps on full may

I have decided, with Sir Henry Blake's kinoship

and consent, to ask for your ruling

the

subject; and pending the receipt of your reply to

this despatch I have given directions for officer, during the period of my

pay of

this

thu

administration, to be retained by the Colonial Treasures.

5. Sir Henry Blake desire o me

to you that though he has been on

to point out leave of

absence he has been performing important duties

I

sung di

with

in confersing with the Loung

Yamern reference to the West River piracies and other

questions, in which he has required the services

of

his Aide-de-camps, who has taken valuable

notes

of

V

Sir Henry's interviews. As I wich to place the whole facts before you in the

at mannhei

I have the honour to invite attention to this fact, though it does not

faire et

your

appers to me

to

justify

The

with-holding of

the

salary from the officer who has done the

work