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Functionaries will probably appear high, and they would be so anywhere, except in China, but my personal observation and all the inquiries made since I came to China, convince me that lower will not suffice.
Government Services of scour to qualified individuals such as should be employed in the discharge of the important Public Duties which will henceforward devolve on these Departments.
That recasion at a very early period of my residence in this formity to point out in Despatch No 3 of the 18th of August 18761 (Superintendent's Department) that the Servants of Government appeared to me to be infinitely worse paid than those persons employed in the Mercantile Houses, and every day has tended to confirm that opinion.
I may state I adduct one striking instance: Mr Melville, the Chief Clerk and Keeper of the Records in the Superintendent's office above two years ago was offered a situation with Messrs Dent & Co. with an increasing Salary of $100 per month, which he declined, to remain in his then allowance of $75 per month in this office.
The person who got this Situation thus refused now receives...