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been in receipt of £180 per annum as Surgeon of the Lock Hospital, I say that I regard the pay for the Lock Hospital, as a mere excrescence, on the salary attached to his Office.
5. The question thence arises whether Dr Murray's pension was calculated on the salary which he was receiving during the last three years of his service, or merely on the salary attached to his Office, or merely on the salary which he was receiving.
6. And whether the allowance which he received for attending the Lock Hospital was considered as part of his salary, and entitling him to increase of pension.
6.2 I consider that these questions can be satisfactorily solved by Your Lordship only - though, if it be expected that I should give an opinion, I would observe that the duties of Surgeon to the Lock Hospital, which might at any time, if expedient, have been transferred to the Colonial Surgeon, actually are, should, therefore, hold that no pension could arise from that special allowance.
7. On the other hand, I believe that, whatever may have been the varying conditions under which Murray purchased certain privileges by the temporary sacrifice of a portion of his salary, the allowance attached to an Office, other than a Horse or table allowance.