Sic
and for
an mercantile
of five Dollars per month to the pay
of
the Chinese Clerk in the Chief Magistrate's
office of Whampoa
Jobserve in spor
the Schedule contained in
your despatch No 104 of
I vide page 5 of
the 26 Dec. that the office Schedule en book onhanni of Chinese Clerk in the
Chief Magistrate Office is
one
which
you
have
marked for reduction. This addition to the pay of that officer is therefore only sanctioned conditionally in case you should find
it necessary The office.
to maintain
Shawet
Desp: N. 104 of 26 Dec / 48
Sir
Victoria, 28th December 1847.
Fifteen months have elapsed since I joined the Colonial Service, and although
this short period I may not be enabled to found a claim to advancement, I trust
the unceasing
attention given
in to the duties
my office added to my former long
of
service
in the Civil Department at Chusan, (on a
low rate of Salary) may
very
consideration-
be deemed not
unworthy of attention while soliciting your
of my present application. It would appear on reference to the Records in the Audit Office that in the Year 1844 two Clerks were employed at
aggregate expense of £500 per
annum,
"the same source however, it is not
The Honorable Major W. Caine,
Colonial Secretary,
to.