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The Private Secretary should have the original salary of £300 a year.
The Colonial Secretary was not overpaid in 1844 at £1800, still less will he be so now with work trebled, and the circumstances of the Colony so entirely altered.
The chief Clerk in the Secretariat should be raised to £500.
The Treasurer should, if the present system be continued, receive not less than £1000, and his First Clerk £400.
The Auditor General should receive the original sum of £1000 without a contribution from the Foreign Office, save as between the Imperial and the Colonial Treasuries, in the shape of refund on account of Services rendered by the Colonial Government.
The Clerk of Councils as at present, The Surveyor General £1000, as in 1844, and the Registrar General as at present.
The Harbor Master & Emigration Officer (a master R.N.) £800 a year.
The Chief Justice may be one exception to the rule