August 5, 1875 - Principal Keeper left for Houghton at 4:30 p.m. with Steam Launch "Little Will" for inspection. Went to L'Anse saw there the Hon. Jay Hubball from this district who informed me that I and my wife were to be removed from this station, the cause thereof he did not know. Also of the removal of P.C. Bird of Eagle Harbor and Ashman of White Fish Point Light. And in anticipation of removal I sent in my own and my wife's resignation to take immediate effect. Which I willingly and without the slightest regret except the gratulation of my enemies and I should have resigned ere long had I been forced to, from the mere fact of the L.H. Board revoking the order for a 2nd assistant at this station. And I envy the successor of mine of his acquired position hoping only that he and his successors will be as competent and perform duties imposed as faithfully as has the subscriber and that he may leave of his own free will not by the caprices and by any "red tape" that might happen to think his removal necessary for the good of the service because he does not bend his knee or pull his forelock to them but prefers being a man and be treated as such. And now to my successor I leave this journal to continue to mark events as true and impartial as I have done also the rest of the books which I think he will find as correct and well kept as most LH records and not like a number of keepers known to me who are unable to keep their accounts and get others to do so for them, and cannot keep track of less than one gill, for fractions of a gill would overrun their arithmetic.
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