any Ordinance at 4/2
been specified in terms of the dollar. The pay
of the Police Force
is credited in terms in Schedule A of
the Ordinance of 1862. In the Blue Book
for 1893, the year in which the pay of a
first Class Constable was fixed as it is
at present, the amount appears as £100-
which has been paid in $480, or at
the rate of 4.80 dollars to the pound sterling.
Since £1 must
be reckoned at 4½ to the pound so
the respectfully submit that so long Government pay
the Police Force at the rate
of using the dollar, that rate must be deemed
to be the rate prescribed by Government in a clause of Agreement dealing with the appropriation of a portion of a Constable's monthly pay; and that
this rate must
be maintained until Ord. 1 of 1864
is
repealed.
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With reference to the course of action
directed as to the Singapore Price, I have
official information as to the rate of
exchange current in the
Colony, whether
Official or banking,
but this distinction
in the circumstances of the Forces
may be pointed out. The
men enlisted
for Singapore were, I believe, the first detachment engaged in England,
whereas in Hong Kong this method
of recruiting Constables has been adopted
since 1891. Hence
any innovation on
the system of remittance in practice, as regards the majority of the European
Force, would affect with special harshness
the new men, unless the matter
Repealed