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Estimates, it might
be better to
office transfor one half, namely £5000, to the
latter Estoniates.
The Salary of the (heep Superintendent previously to the termination of the was in China, and the establishment of the Govermass of Hongkong, was £ 3000, a year; and if an
affices of Governor of Houghing
any
Fine the
as was
and theep Superintendent should be separated, it would probably be found recepary to grant to the theef Superintendent the same amount of Salary formerly granted to that Officer.
Moreover when the Salary of £6000, assigned to the holder of the
a
year
combined
one
Was
Office's,
moiety of
it was understood that
that sum was
assigned to
Kiin
him for his services under the Foreign Office ;
and with this understanding Sir John Davis and Fir S. G. Bonham received on
J.J.
their
appointment £1000, as outfit from the Ineige
Office, that sum being according
being according to the
regulations of the Foreign Office, one third of the ammnt of annual salary payable. to them in connection with that Department.
I am to add that if his I. Parkington
Concurs mi
this brew
y
the case,
Lord
Malmesbury with cause the sum of £3000
to be inserted in the Foreign Office Estimate as the salary of the Chief Inperintendent; and that His Ladships with transmit copies of the correspondence between the two Offices on this matter to the Lord of the Treasury in cxplanation of the
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