all
indispensably necessary to provide
in the employ of Government
Whether at Hongkong
persons
with public quarters, whether at
on at the different Consulates. The
hire
of
the most common
Hong Kong experience get extended) would absorb a large portion of the Salary; and there is no doubt
Canton (where alone our
but the same observation will
even more
strongly apply to the
distant Consulates, whilst at Hongkong
houses
on
have been
are
terms,
or are
absolutely not to be had
and
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have
many required, have been
and must be, built and kept in repair at the public expense.
With these general remarks
it
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it is perhaps proper that I should
offer
cases.
Services
some
explanatory of particular.
I consider that the invaluable
Mr. Morrison as Chinese Secretary entitle him to the highest Salary assigned to any of the Consuls, and that which I have put down for his Assistant - (Mr. Morrison Junior) will have to be increased
soon as he is qualified to undertake the duties of an Interpreter. When I take into consideration
as
the quantity of original Chinese Correspondence and papers of every description that hereafter may
to arrive
unceasingly