and to raise his salary from £300
to € 400
per That
annum
your
Lordship may not hay
the reductions made
think I have been inconsiderate in thus burthening the Colony with unnecessary additional expense I trust I may respectfully refer to by me during the period that I have had charge the Goverment, and to remind Indelin that the only perio who has had
your
ale
augmentation
to his Salary since I have been in Office is M2 Morgan, clerk in the audit office,
who
formerly
reecived only £250 per annum which has been rained to £300 at the recommendation of my Predecesin.-
Mr Ricnaccker has been 7 years in the Colonial Service,
is in
a most
every respect valuable Servant, and during
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Mr Mercer's absence was acting Colonial Treasurer: I therefre carneeth and respectfully islicit.
your Lordship's sanction to the
reported.
measure mou
I deem it right to memil my opinion that the Salare of £400 per annum should be considered as provisional and personal to Mr Ricnaceker, and that the Salary of
the office of 2t Clerk should be
again
reduced to its £300 per
present rate of £300
so soon as
annum,
MzRienaceker can
be promoted to 1th Clark, on
othervice provided for.-
Mr. "Comclate J.
remind
may ne
elderly
your Lordship is an cloberts Gentleman verging on 70 years of