1st that this Grace is
of opinion that it
would be a convenient arrangement
the
whole, thus to establish
by Ordinance a fixed
scale of salaries for the payment of the Public Offices, leaving the fluctuating and miscellaneous charges
to be defrayed by the annual Votes of the
Legislature,
an
Estimate prepared and
sent home as
at
of roll
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His Grace desires
that the
repeated representations which have been
addressed to this
Office for some time past by the Officials of Hong Kong complaining of the insufficiency of
their salaries,
the
justice of which his
Grace is constrained to
admit is borne out
by
information from
other quarters - induces him to defer to the opinion entertained upon this point by the Governor, and to