CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903 — Page 923

I am to inform you that Ill. Crisp's petition

was received and

Considered by Mr. Chamberlain who decided that his request could not be

granted,

since he was

under a special contract

and not on

the permanent

establishment of the

Colony. Thereupon he was paid off by the terms of this contract which, as he

was aware, did not

provide a passage for his wife and child.

3.

In reply to your question

as to the

termination of all engagement, I am

to say that Mr. Crisp's engagement

was terminated under

clause 6 of his agreement,

not by the Colonial Regulations

but by the clause

which

gave power to the

Government to determine his engagement at any

time,

on the conditions

stated in that clause. One

of which was

the provision of a return second-class passage for himself, and not for his wife and

child.

4. Mr. Chamberlain is satisfied that

Mr. Crisp has been treated with full justice; and he cannot admit the claim

put forward in your letter under reply I

am directed.