Brought forward 900. Two Keepers of the Burial Ground, at $6 per mensem each..
One Coolie for the Land office, as a messenger, Sweeper, No, at $4 per mensem..
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mating with your own.
Salary $1/16. of $120 per month. (or $1440 annually) a total monthly sum of $213 Hollers. This amount will draw in an Abstract, accompanied by an acquittance Roll, agreeable to the inclosed Forms.
You will study economy in the most rigid manner. You may consider it indispensably requisite to make any Repairs on the Roads, &c.; and must not expend one shilling without having previously applied and obtained the sanction, in writing, of the Deputy Superintendent.
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As the existing prohibition against further Grants of Land is to continue in full force, pending the receipt of commands from Her Majesty's Government, it will not even be necessary for you to bring any applications on that subject to the notice of the Deputy Superintendent, who will be charged with the Civil Government of the Island, during the absence of His Excellency Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart. You are to take the utmost care to prevent any encroachments on unappropriated Lands in any part of this Island, or on the Roads whether completed or now in progress; and, should anything of the kind come to your knowledge, whatever may be the plea or pretence assigned, you will instantly stop the work.