CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907 — Page 685

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I desire to ask that you will be so good as to bring

under the notice of the Secretary of State certain special

services which were performed by me during my tenure of

office under the Crown in various Colonies and which are

described in a Memorandum attached hereto.

2.

It may, I am aware, be said that regard was had to

these services in the promotions which I received from time

to time in the Colonial Civil Service. But on this view of

the matter I would respectfully beg leave to make one or two

observations. In the first place, promotion is generally

granted to an Officer for the faithful and efficient perform-

ance of his duties in the ordinary course. I may mention that

in the year in which I left the service, vizi 1902, three

Attorneys General were severally promoted to be Chief Justice

in their respective Colonies, viz: Ceylon, Hongkong, and

British Guiana, and, so far as I know, none of them had per-

formed voluntary and prolonged special services such as those

described in the Memorandum. And in any case I wish to point

out that the services mentioned in paragraphs 6, 7, and 8 of

the Memorandum, namely, the preparation of the Hongkong Bille,

the drafting and settlement of the Hongkong Code of Civil Procedure, and the preparation of the new and revised edition

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Colonial Office,

Downing Street,

LONDON. S.W.