80th March, 1904. the time of its inauguration. Under these circumstances the Council has therefore recorded the decision that the Long Service Medal shall be instituted as from the Ist of January, 1904.
Iam to request you to convey to the Chief Engineer of the Brigade an express sion of the Council's appreciation of the motives of his personal action in this matter, in which the Council sympathises; at the same time it is the opinion of the members that compliance with Mr. Kabler's suggestion in this matter might entail a certain amount of criticism and general inconvenience which, i of the expressed opinion of the Brigade as a whole, makes the retrospective institution of this decoration inadvisable. Tam, Sir, Your obedient servant, 3.0. PB, Buasp, Secretary. J. A. Poxp, Esq.,
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