Furthermore salary ought to be raised to £5000 and the salary of the Chief Justice, to be fixed at £2500.
I have requested W. H. Ewing to prepare for convenience of reference a synopsis shewing the amounts recommended respectively by the Committee, by Her Majesty and by the Governor. The differences are not material & I conclude that the recommendations made by the Governor will be adopted.
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Car.
You annex the account of salaries at Singapore £272 17 March.
Sir Hercules Robinson - Holograph, 10th January 1858.
The Duke of Newcastle.
J. 2.
3 Inclosures - Received.
Reporting upon the establishment of a fixed Civil List.
Two schedules of Singapore salaries are required.
It confirms my opinion in favor of the suggestions for Hong Kong.
TH 25 March.
Recommendations?
07065
Non Elliot.
Is the Governor's Report on the question of a Fixed Civil Establishment." The Governor's Papers in the bound Vols: relate to the question of the Civil Salary, for which Sir S. Bonham applied.
J.J.15 May.
Minute on a despatch 12467 which will recall to you the origin of the present report from the Memorandum.
Opinion is that the...
Copy.
Council Chamber, Monday, 26 December, 1867
We the members of a Committee of the Legislative Council, formerly appointed on 21st November last, to consider the proposed Ordinance to grant a Civil List to Her Majesty for the Colony of Hongkong, "and to report thereon to the Council" having fully considered the same do now report.
That at our first meeting, when taking the whole of the Ordinance into consideration, and reviewing it as a means of...
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