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I have to state that I cannot precisely understand whether the Commissioners are of opinion that the arrears should be paid up or not. The officers named had apparently not subscribed to the fund from the fact that their appointments were at first only of a temporary nature. Mr. Caron alone appears to have made good the arrears.
Since, however, it has been decided by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury that no officers in the Colony of Hong Kong will be entitled to Pensions by virtue of their past Contributions, I do not see how it could be possible to make the persons named pay up large subscriptions to a fund from which it has been decided that they are to derive no benefit.
6. Certain approvals of requisitions appear likewise to be wanting for the period referred to in the Auditor's statement. They can now be furnished in part should the Honorable the Acting Governor desire it, but from the imperfect manner in which many of the Treasury Records have been kept, they are by no means complete.
The Commissioners in their report do not appear to require them for past years as the covering warrants