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thom expected of her.

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I agree, and I think we can wait to see if Sir

E. Stubbs makes a proposal for some exceptional

bonus as at the end of par. 4, which would be

less objectionable than a special pension.

Meanwhile we can defer reply to Mr. Jaffe.

A.E.C.

24.5.20

چه چیکه

74.6.20

Lord,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Despatch No. 31 of the 21st of January, 1920,

in which you forwarded a copy of a letter from Mr. D. Jaffé with regard to the amount of his pension.

2.

The letter raises a question of principle, on which I should be glad to be informed of Your Lordship's

views,

3.

There is, I understand, no question that

Mr. Jaffé was an exceptionally able officer who carried out

with great efficiency and to the complete satisfaction of the

Government a number of public works of very considerable

magnitude and importance but I have always been under the

impression that the "special merit" clause which occurs in

somewhat similar form in the Pension Ordinaces or Regulations

of most Crown Colonies was not intended to apply to such a

case but was meant to provide for the case of an officer who

bad rendered some especial service to the State in a direction

lying wholly apart from his ordinary duties. I cannot at the

moment recall any case in which the clause was put into

operation though I have some idea that a former Protector of Chinese in the Malay Peninsula was granted a special pension

as a recognition of his services to the Government in re-

-organizing

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

VISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,

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