preparation and service of Subpoenas upon numerous co-witnesses, copies of all to be made
in
Chinese where the prisoners and witnesses are Chinese, the saving that all witnesses are in punctual attendance and that
all necessary proofs are forthcoming
-
are
duties that
when required
press heavily upon me
whatever are
of the felony
the circumstances
I find my salary wholly inadequate to the expensiveness of the place and my necessary support, putting
out of the question the maintaining of a respectable position as a Government
Official. It will surely be sufficient for me to state in
support of this fact, that after
paying the rent of a small
and inconvenient room of about
feet square for the transaction of public business solely, and defraying the salary of a young boy merely a copying
Clerk
and scarcely able to understand a word of English, I have only a balance of £191 per annum to meet all other expenses.