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Law Officers
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incapacitated from becoming Governor of the Colong in the absence
of
the Lieut Governor,
I d'Almada è Castro
now enjoys a Salary of £472. 10 Chief fleck in the Colonial Secretary's Office, and an additional
as
£ 100 per Annum as
Council being
an
fleak of the
aggregate of
£ 572... 10 which I think considering the rate of Salaries obtaining
the Junior branches of the
among Public Service at Hongkong most-imple.
is
I entirely approve of Mr. Mereer's appointment as folonial Secretary and think that his Salary should be fixed at £1200 per annum; and I also think that the Local Government will
be extremely fortunate should
it be able to retain br Reinaecker's Services as Colonial Treasurer
at & 600 per
boo
218
annum
of the
high estimation in which I hold these Gentlemen I have spoken in Despatches when in office, and I therefore need not here enlarge further Iubject.
I entirely agree
on the
in the
necessity of pensioning Dr. Somelate
and indeed recommended the
measine
me
before I vacates
my
late
Office, and if this measure be adopted it will enable the other anangements proposed by folonel faine to be canied into effect.
But there is one
point which is not adverted to by St. Colonel Carne in his Despatch of the 15t April which I consider my imperative duty to bring to notie I allude to the Salary fixed for the Office of the Lieut Governa
Ber W. Baxters
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