1st May. I may have done Jenny wrong,
but if I did it was on grounds which I now remember, and which are not stated in the correspondence before me.
When the Civil List was being promulgated by Government, I endeavoured as far as practicable to secure uniformity amongst the Clerks in the different Departments by assigning £400 per annum as a fitting salary for first Clerks, and £300 for Second Clerks, and so on.
332 The Audit Office, however, having only one Clerk, I had to decide between placing him in the same position, with the salary attached thereto, as the first Clerks in other Offices, or as a second Clerk. Mr Rennie advocated at the time his Clerk being placed on the list at £400; I thought it fair on the whole to put him down at £300, and decided accordingly. I rather think that even if there was an increase of £50 to Mr Da Silva,