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thus, notwithstanding their qualification and efficiency,

Your Petitioners have not only been debarred from promotions

to clerical posts but are even not placed on the same basis

as Clerks in regard to the commencement of these increases

of salaries.

12.

In conclusion Your Petitioners respectfully beg to

state that they are British-born subjects and have all an

honourable record of faithful service under the Government

whose impartial and just administration has led Your Petition

-ers to hope that if only their case is fully presented, they

will be granted the same privileges as were granted to the

Clerks.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray

that His Majesty's Principal Secretary

of State for the Colonies may be

graciously pleased to allow them to

draw their increases from 1st January

1913 instead of 1st January 1915and

to count their previous service in the

same grades for increment purposes.

And Your Petitioners will, ae in duty bound,

ever pray etc.

Hongkong, April, 1915,

Wong Kwong Lie Hong Jak kwon

kwony

Lo Kam chake.

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