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0 is an initial outlay for a steam launch but I think the expenses of the establishment should not exceed $5000 a year. Inspector Brewer complains that his salary is not sufficient to support him and his family and he points to the engineers of small steamers on the Coast obtaining as good a salary as he does and board besides. This is no doubt the fact and as Mr Brewer has shown himself a thoroughly good and energetic officer and one who seems to know his work thoroughly perhaps Your Lordship would feel disposed to grant him some slight increase to his present salary. The estimated Revenue in 1882 from ordinance 8 of 1879 is $9,000 but I think this if anything is an under estimate.
With regard to the steam launch it was found impossible for the Surveyor to get through half of his work without it and accordingly the tender of the Hong Kong