to your recommendation that
the rules in force in the Consular service should be adopted
for the Hongkong service Herally
4 It i
very
desirable that
there should be uniform Resu- -lations in euch matters Kroughout- the Colonial Service, & the present Regulations, under which an section Officer holding an acting appointment is entitled to halt the pay of that office, +
no Officer
is entitled to vacatio
de
leave a full pay anders sectorsbacking
Jervision
can be made for t
with out cost to the Treasury
performance of his duties, are
found twork Latifactorily
in other Crown Colonies.
5
In the present case
Jas not disposed to concur
you in the opinion that
the salaries which an attacked
to the Offices of Coronent
See
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28
Sheriff should be trea??? differently to other public Salaries, although in the exec of the pay attached to the Superintendency of the Five Brigade my predecessor acquiessed in regarding that- as an allowance for work done; da, the gentlemen you have appointed to act in there Offices both hold other appointments in
He public service, Shee for giving them teft fall Labary of their acting appointments * proporre unless there
the
Ao reaso
Are
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any special objective which an-
hot aware of to a low Mr. Lister the halfsalony of thell his Offices,
6 for the present the Agents have been intructed
duping his vacation leave to pay him, fall salary at
the rate of $800
a year,
but Shave to remark that-
it the emoluments acto:
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to the Offices of Cormert
Theriff
are
the treated s
allowances for work done,
an Officer leaving the Colony
In leave of absence would not- be entitles to any part-of-
them.