of a eutain percentage
on all salaries not
£300 is
loceeding Onsequence of the higher cost
o
of living
occasioned by the War,
has been referred for the judgment of the L. C. of the Treasury.
Whilst however the items before selected for remark seem to
me to demand
fort her explanating I am prepared to believe
that the pesaraes of
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the Colony are lo far diminished by the
War, and the general demands upon it so
far increased by the saime cause, as to
require that for some
time it should have
recourse to the Aid:
of Parliament in
order to preserve it's
Affairs from falling into confersion. This Appears to me a sufficient plea for.
granting Assistance