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I feel sure that the proposed changes will greatly facilitate the recovery of the Police rate and, in conjunction with the new Rate Assessment, will certainly prove to a small extent more economical and, as I have already served, benefit the Public Service.
9. Your Grace will perceive in the Estimates for 1864 that I have placed under the head of Treasurer $960 or £200 as the salary of the Clerk to the Police and Lighting and Water Rate department.
My reason for doing so is that the water rates imposed by Ordinance No. 12 of 1860 will then in all probability be leviable and will, of course, add to the duties of the clerk.
10. I subjoin a short statement of the expenditure on account of the Police and Lighting Rate department, showing the effect of the above arrangement in a pecuniary point of view.
Present Establishment: $2,916.57 = £607.10.-
Estimated for 1864:
Deduct Mr. Grand's proposed Pension calculated on £350 for 18 years' service: $1,680.00 = £350.-.-
$1,236.00 = £257.10.-
644.00 = £134.3.4
Actual decrease: $592.00 = £123.6.8
I have the honor to be,
My Lord Duke,
Your Grace's,
Most Obedient Servant,