484 requirements of my Department might in that respect best be met with advantage to the Public Service.
If I understand correctly the letters from your Department No. 568 and 551, His Excellency's view is that I should dispense with the Services of one of the notice servers employed at the Treasury and bring into the Department a good European and educated Portuguese clerk on a salary of $80 a month in lieu of $40 per Mensem hitherto paid. The Offices of sub-accountant and notice server being combined in one and the same individual.
With reference to the above suggestion I submit that it might be difficult to secure the services of a qualified European Portuguese for so small a salary as $80 a month.
I would also observe that to unite the duties of sub-accountant and notice server in one and the same individual might be inconsistent with what is due to the security of the Rates paid into his hands as notice server when he might act as sub-accountant (in the absence of the accountant).