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3. I shall be glad if you will consult the Heads of Departments and the Executive Council, if you have not already done so, and submit a Scheme, which shall to some extent combine the Recommendations of the Committee with those of the Acting Colonial Secretary. Such a scheme should contain a complete Classifi- cation of the whole subordinate service, with salaries attached to grades and offices rather than to individual Officers.
4. I should also be glad if you would submit definite recommendations as to the systematization of their allowances.
5. I concur in the view of the Committee that the Government may reasonably require, say, seven hours' work a day from its clerks.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble Servant,
Governor
SIR H. A. BLAKE, G.C.M.G.,
&G.,
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&c.
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
No. 160.
(Colonial Secretary to Chairman, Salaries Committee.)
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE.
HONGKONG, 23rd January, 1901.
SIR, I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to convey to you, as Chairman of the Committee appointed to enquire into the Salaries of Subordinate Officers in the Hongkong Civil Service and to the other members of that Commit- tee, the thanks of the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the useful work which has been done by you and them.
I have the honour to be, Sir.
Your obedient Servant,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART.
Colonial Secretary.
The Honourable R. M. GRAY.
(Governor to Secretary of State.)
Enclosure No. 1.
Enclosure No. 2.
No. 202.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 3rd June, 1901.
SIR,-In reply to paragraph 4 of your despatch No. 402 of the 21st of last December, I have the honour to transmit to you the enclosed copies of tables drawn up by the Captain Superintendent of Police and the Colonial Treasurer, whom I appointed to form a Committee for that purpose, classifying the salaries of the Subordinate Civil Service, together with a report by Mr. F. H. May for warding the systematization of allowances.
2. I do not desire that any action should be taken at present on that part of the new scheme which concerns the Colonial Secretary's Office, as the re-organiza- tion of that Department is under my consideration and I await the return of the Colonial Secretary before submitting final recommendations, but I approve of all the other increases proposed and recommend that they should take effect from the 1st January, 1901.
The scheme is viewed favourably by my Executive Council.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble Servant,
The Right Honourable
Joseph ChamBERLAIN, M.P.,
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H. A. BLAKE. Governor, fc.