that they are subject to an Income Tax of 3 per
Cent, while the rich Merchant, and all British Subjects in China not in the Public Service are free from any tax of the kind; the Governor proposed to the Conseil that, while there was a sufficient supply of Spanish Dollars
in it.
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t. Commissariat Chest, the Colonial Servants' salaries at Hongkong should be paid in that coin, as he had already in his diplomatic capacity ordered for Consulate at Canton, whereupon it was Resolved accordingly, and the Clerk was ordered to furnish the Colonial Treasurer a copy of this Resolution, authorizing at the same time those payments which he has already made in Spanish Dollars in the Consular and Colonial Departments,
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Thank you for the receipt of your despatch reporting that in compliance with the advice of the Executive Council of Hong Kong you have given orders for the payment of the Salaries of the Civil Servants of the Colony in Spanish Dollars, so long as a sufficient supply of that Coin exists in the Commissariat Chest. The directions which...