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from inch, some new arrangement will be necessitated by the removal of the Superintendency from Hong Kong. There will be an advantage to the Colony from the absolute separation of the Colonial from the Diplomatic and Consular Accounts, and no doubt some such arrangement will have to be made by Her Majesty's Treasury.
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I must mention here that two other Colonial Officers receive pay from the funds voted by Parliament to the Superintendency, namely the Attorney General who has £200 a year for his services as adviser to the Chief Superintendent, and £200 to the Surveyor General for his trouble in revising Estimates, preparing Plans and rendering other services connected with his department in the Consular Ports. This want will have to be provided for, I imagine, independently of the Colonial Surveyor.
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Provision will have to be made for the loss of the services of Gentlemen of the Commissariat who have been employed by the Colonial Treasurer. Within a few days we have had notice that two of these Gentlemen are about to leave.
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