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render it impossible for me to perform
the duties of Wreck Receiver of the district
without having a Deputy at each of those
places - I cannot leave the important
business I have to attend to at Hull - to
proceed to a place on the Coast or to
Bridlington in cases of small matters of
wreck - or distress of ships. - I have therefore
conferred with Captain Metcalfe, - the Inspecting
Commander of the Coast Guard at Bridlington
and Lieutenant Shacklock the Lieutenant
at that station - and with Lieutenant Stewart
of the Coast Guard Station at Hornsea -
from all of whom I have received the
most courteous attention - and the
readiest assistance in their power -
in the discharge of my wreck duties. - on the
subject of becoming my Deputy as explained
in your preceeding order - and they are
unanimous in opinion that being my
deputy Receiver of wreck would be incompatible
with their duties as officers of the Coast Guard
one great obstacle being that by a rule of
their department all correspondence
from them must pass through the office
of the Controller General of the Coast Guard
such a course would no doubt be
extremely inconvenient in a correspondence
on questions almost purely mercantile in
their character - I therefore beg to be allowed
to name a civilian at each of the places
mentioned - or - probably what would
be a better course- that I be entirely
relieved from the performance of the
duty - and that the Inspecting Commander
of the Coast Guard at Bridlington for the time
being - be appointed Receiver of Wreck for the
district in my [room?] - when there would

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