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• project whether it would not be expedient by way of securing them to give the three Overseers, — Watts, Baynes, and Calston, all getting $60 a month, their increments from the year after they joined the Department. Thus Watts, who joined in 1874, would get $76, Baynes, who joined in 1874, would get $68, and Calston, who joined in 1877, would get this on expiration of his first year's service.
I. Mr. J. Price
Acting Colonial Secretary
16th May 1878.
Minute by Governor, Schedule Annexed 480
I approve of the Acting Surveyor General's suggestions, but subject to the modification I have introduced, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, the principle of salaries increasing by annual increments in the case of Head Turnkey of the Hong Kong Gaol. In the Public Works Department, the advantage and justice of applying that principle is equally manifest, and it is entirely in consonance with the policy pursued by Mr. Price, that of looking to consistent...