It is Lord Granard's opinion that the recommendations of Sir R. MacDonnell, involving an expenditure of $1500 per annum, should be approved, as a temporary arrangement only, and he proposes, when filling up the appointment of Colonial Secretary, which is now vacant, to call upon the Governor to consider the necessity of remodelling the Dept. [as he considers it very doubtful whether there is any economy in employing Portuguese instead of English clerks, at lower salaries, who although devoted to their work more slowly [ly] by reason of their difficulty in dealing with documents "couched in a language foreign to them"].
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