Despatch 1:24 of 1854.
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1
Letter from
the Suairintenience offrade.
to those of the Oud and 3 Clerks in
that their salaries be assimilated Scertary's derartiment, uquesting and 10.3. Grand Pre, of the Colonial
AP J.Lotiunde
Copy.
Sir,
te
for
87049/57
157
Victoria, KingRory,
184
#May, 1854.
I venture to submuit
6 you my respectful request
02-21
increase to
my salary which I find insufficient for affording
the
living respectably and providing for the wants of a family
in so
ad
expensive a place Hongkong from my salary
which amounts to the
inenne Tax is deducted,
of $40- inco
The Anorable.
C. B. Hillier, Congre
Chief Magistrate.
106 May, 1957.