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will be subordinate to the Colonial
Colonial Secretary
The post
as all the other departments
are.
of Chinese Secretary and Translator in the Colonial Secretary's Office, which the Legislature sanctioned in the Annual Estimates for 1880 and for 1881 and which
Dr. Eitel at present holds, will cease when the proposed Interpretation Department is established,
is established, as the duties of
this post will all devolve
on the head of
the proposed ordinary interpretation the Colonial Secretary has in the newly appointed First Clerk, Mr. Seth, a good interpreter for several dialects, whilst for all documentary translation and technical Chinese
information, the new
Interpretation
Department will be at the service
of the Colonial Secretary
as the Chinese
Secretary hitherto was
As regards the changes
proposed originally by Mr. C.-C. Smith to be made in the Registrar General's Department, I enclose a printed Report by a Committee I appointed scheme drawn up by M. G. C. Smith the re-organization of the Registrar General's Department. Your Lordship will observe that this Report is opposed
to
any changes being made in the Registrar General's Department except those which I have experimentally made in relieving the Registrar General of some of the duties & of Protector of Chinese so far as the