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The whole sum thus contributed £5,083.5.8. is after all inconsiderable when compared with the pensions lately granted by their Lordships from the local revenue of this Colony amounting to £2644 a year; and before many months elapse the Pension list will reach nearly £5,000 a year, if their Lordships deal with equal liberality with the remaining public Officers of long standing who are about to claim retiring allowances.
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This item of Pensions hitherto unknown will accordingly for the future form a heavy and yearly increasing burden on the resources of the Colony, forming perhaps some slight additional claim on their Lordships' liberal consideration that it was never anticipated here that the Colony would under any circumstances have been called upon to provide a pension for the late Chief Justice Mr Hulme, to whom £1300 a year has lately been awarded. Mr. Hulme was one of those who never contributed to the Superannuation Fund; and non-contributors were understood to forfeit all claim to retiring allowances. It is generally believed here also that when Mr Hulme's Salary was raised shortly after his appointment from £2,300 to £3000, it was on the express ground that he had no pension to look forward to. It was supposed, therefore, that if a pension were granted to this Gentleman by the Lords of Her Majesty's