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Six Hundred and fifty Rupees (650) per Month, and an Allowance for office Establishment:
One hundred Rupees (100) per mensem...
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will be allowed to select one officer as your assistant on a Salary of One hundred and fifty Rupees (150) per month, including thirty for Horse Allowance, and when you report his name, an application will be made to Major General Lord Saltown for his services.
Lord Saltown has been so good as to place at your disposal Privates of Her Majesty's service as European Overseers under you, and Six Chinese Overseers will also be allowed.
The Europeans will be allowed Twenty five Rupees each per month Civil Pay, and the Chinese Overseers Thirty Rupees each.
The whole of these allowances will be drawn monthly by a Receipt in Quadriplicate, accompanied by a Requittance Roll of the different Persons to be signed by you, which is required as a Voucher for the charge on its being brought to account in the Disbursements of the Government of this Island.
All the Surveying Instruments now disposable will be placed at Your Command; and should others be required, they will be applied for to the Supreme Government of India on your furnishing a list of them.
A House will be allowed for the purpose of the survey, the rent of which is, in Consideration of the great demand for Houses, fixed
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