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vested in the Governor by the Statute law of this Colony, of INr Mitchell-Innes to be Assistant Registrar-General, and also of Mr
Osmund to be First Clerk in the Department of the Registrar-General, in the place of Mr. Gerrard (retired on pension).
It appears that the
Colonial Department has criticised
the sala
salary
allotted to the office of
Assistant Registrar; but that the
out
Department has failed to point o to Your Lordship that that salary
wad
868
was
fixed obviously with the view
of confining the public expenditure within the Estimates already voted and
¿
appropriated by the Colonial Legislature, viz :- by combining the
salary of a passed Cadet ($1,800) already drawn by M. Mitchell-omes with the salary of the Registration Clerk, whose abolished (#1440); thus making
Office
has been
a
total salary of $3,2.40. I concurred with the Excentive Council (and
I
* See the Memorandum by the Registrar- General of April 12. 1884, which forms Enclosure 2 in the Governor's despatch No 126 of 1884.