B. These papers
Registrar General - 2 Assist. Reg. General. M. Innes
suggest the following
M. Stewart
5040
Mr. Meade.
Mr. Rome
To deal with Miserrard's Pension. 5.4.95. June
527
The Pension of £241.13.4
3240
per
annum is correct, and
I would agree to B. with the
giving 3240.
M. Osmund 21
2400
Sanctioned from
the 13th April last?
23/7/84
MW-Heade
M. Northcote 1440
excepting M. Innes. 2400. Instead
27 May 27/5
as my own 2400 would give out the same salary the clerk have mine as Assistant Registrar, Leave the his officer salary as Registrar General $3240.
Rm 2015 Proceed as suggested. I May 29
according to this paper of particulars M. Gerard did not act as Registrar General after 14th May 1881, so that even if such emoluments he received were allowed to be included in his 3 years average, they could apparently only be counted for one month out of 36. But it is certain, it does look from 11749/82 as if he acted as Registrar General until the spring of 1882, not 1881.
However, if you take "1881" to be a mistake for "1882", the decision on 1749/82 & 1512/84 that such acting emoluments are not to be counted at all, the date of doc. not affect the action this pension, that decision was, I think, strictly in accordance with the Hongkong pension rule minute, though it is clear, as in the case of M. W. Gerard, that in other Colonies, such emoluments have been counted.