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Conclosure

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Supreme Court,

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17th. May, 1910.

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I have the honour to apply for a period of

leave beginning on the 7th. December next and ending on the 6th

January, 1912.

I desire to devote part of my leave to

attending regularly at the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House,and at the Central Office of the Supreme Court, England.

Probate practice in Hongkong is in many

respects in an unsettled and unsatisfactory state, and on most

of these points little or no assistance can be obtained from any

of the text books on the subject, and the only way of ascertain-

-ing the practice is to gain an acquaintance with the actual

working of the probate registries in England. Forms of grant,

too, are not given in any of the books. I am anxious to riake a

collection of forms, especially forms of grant, and to make my-

-self acquainted with the English practice in those points where

it is obscure.

I am also anxious to make myself acquainted

with the practice of the Central Office on certain points, and

to attend in the Taxing Department in order to obtain experience

in taxation work.

As the above work, which I believe would

greatly benefit the general working of this Department, would

Iventure to ask that three months occupy my full time for at least three months of the above

period of thirteen months may be treated as actual service and

that I may be given full pay for those three months in addition

to the usual three months of vacation leave. I would undertake

to produce certificates to show that I had worked in the

offices in question for the full period of three months in all.

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