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Sir Michael Wicks Beach,
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in paragraph 8 of his despatch 10.114 of 21st August, 1879, desired me to furnish Statements of the present and proposed establishments, showing exactly what changes will be effected, in what branches there will be an increase or decrease of expenditure, but as I do not propose to make any further changes in the Registrar General's Office, and as the tables appended to the Report of the Committee which I appointed to revise Mr. C. C. Smith's scheme for the re-organization of the Registrar General's Department show the decrease of expenditure in the Registrar General's Department included in my proposal, whilst the enclosed Amended Draft Rules show the increase expenditure involved in the establishment of the new Interpretation Department, the following explanations will suffice to enable Your Lordship to come to a decision. The expenditure of the Registrar General's Department is reduced by my proposal, as stated in paragraph 10 of the Report of the Committee, by the sum of $2,700 a year, and might still further be reduced by diminishing the salary of the Registrar General when any change occurs in the present occupancy. The Colonial Secretary's Department will transfer to the proposed new Interpretation Department the salary of the present Interpreter, Mr. C. C. Smith will...