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office geis $3,360 per annum, and allowance for House and mess expense.
House rent
is dear. The lowest rent for decent accommodation is $45 per month or nearly £120 per annum and it is not often that a House can be got at that rate now and owing to the low rate of exchange all imported articles are very dear, medical attendance, drugs, &c., Chair coolics also are a neccessity; altogether I do not think a married man in the position of a Deputy Registrar could live respectably under at least $2,400 per annum, and he could in my opinion barely do so upon that amount.
Rents here have gone up very much and so have servants wages and nearly every- thing else since I was here before and it has been found necessary to increase the salaries of nearly every public officer in some way or other since the passing of the
Civil List.
If the Secretary of State does not think it right to grant the salaries of $3,360 as a permanent arrangement, may I be permitted to suggest that considering the length of service of both Mr. SANGSTER and Mr. BARFF, the appointments might be offered to them at the increased rate as a matter personal to them and upon the understanding that upon a vacancy in either office the amount to be paid to the party succeeding to the vacant appointment shall not exceed $2,760 at all events to commence with.
If the Secretary of State however cannot sauction this proposal, I must beg that the appointment of Deputy Registrar at $2,760 per annum may be filled up as soon as possible with the best man that can be obtained at the salary. It is an appointment from the want of which the Court, the Registrar, the suitors, and the revenue are suffering every day.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
GEORGE PHILLIPPO,
Chief Justice.
I have refered throughout this Report to the
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