No. 50

I have had the honor to receive Your Grace's despatch No. 18 of
the 21st of March, forwarding an application from Mrs
W.G. Cox for her husband to be compelled to pay her two hundred
pounds (£200) a year.

2. I observe that Mrs Cox makes this application in the
belief that her husband is in the receipt of a salary of nine
hundred pounds (£900) a year.

3. Amongst the numberless persons whose offices I have been
compelled to abolish is Mr Cox. I have done away with the
Magistracy at the Big Bend of the Columbia. I have offered
Mr Cox a small situation in the Customs Department which he
has not yet accepted, but very certainly it would not enable him
to settle two hundred pounds (£200) a year on his wife.