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in English
the books and forms required, in English and Chinese must however be regarded
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personally responsible for the efficiency of the whole establishment. The duties devolving on him under Imperial Acts, and as the Colonial officer charged with the immediate supervision of Foreign shipping inwards and outwards rendered it hopeless to expect
per annum to the amount of two millions of tons
I have therefore suggested an increase of his salary by £100 per annum, and am satisfied Your Lordship will approve that proposal.
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Enclosure No 4
A clearer idea will be conveyed of the disposition of the several duties of the Department by transmitting for Your Lordship's information the enclosed Regulations for the Department, which I caused the Harbor Master to prepare and which I subsequently revised myself.
It was doubtless a great labor for him to cope with the increased labor created by the new legislation without the aid of such capable assistants as Mr. Jonnochy. It nevertheless was obvious that a vast amount of additional duty, and serious responsibility was in any case imposed on him, and to measure the amount of work to be undertaken and the difficult nature of that work, which so long deterred this Government from sooner grappling with the task of subjecting native