the information of the Ponid, that the only
A.
-informations which can be traced in this Office ;
to the rates of cytra remuneration / ;
s given to Officers of Engineers and
and Civilians of the Engineer Department employed in superintending the construction of Colonial buildings is the following, wig:-
At : t Helena, the Captain of Engineers Commanding, is allowed 10% per day, the Clerk of Works 3f and the Cluck 2 . In Ceylon, a Captain commanding ) have
and a
Subaltern (not an allowance of 5/- per
day. At Gibraltar the Com?
long inter peceives
Royal 15/- per day. In New-
South Wales, the Com? Royal Engineer
has F-500 per
annum and in Van Diemen's
Land the Com Royal Engineer has £300 per annum . And adverting to the rates proposed to be given to the Engineer Department at Hongkong in the accompanying.
correspondence
218
correspondence, and which have been reported
to
: me
by Major Aldrich, and
8 forwarded for the information of the Master General, Jam of chinion with reference to the peculiar circumstances of that locality, that they are reasonable, and beg to submit the same for favourable consideration; at the same time perhaps I may be permitted to expres doubts of the propriety of Major my Aldrich the Commanding Royal Engineer declining any remuneration for himself, some circumstances connected, with personal feelings may have induced him to take this step, but it involves a principle that
a
saving,
though apparently attended with. is not advantageous to the public service, and place sother Commanding Royal Engineers and his successors in cenfairly. disagreeable positions .
Jam, Sir, te, re
(Signed)
I. F. Burgoyne,
INGRE