12.
47
13
arreard
of
increased pay from 1st
January last.
:
7 These resolutions of the Excentive Council were laid before
the Finance Committee, who agreed
and four hund dollars.
to them, and the increase of $5400 Five thousan has accordingly been inserted in
the revised Estimate of 1885.
8.
The Captain duperintendent
of Coliec was directed to inform the members of the force that those
who chose to subscribe to the
new conditions would reecive
the increased rate of pay from
the
the 1st January, 1884. Sixty (60) have subscribed and forty four (44) have destined to do os, preferring to retain their former position and in the force. Amongst
privileges
these latter are included four
Constables who were sent out in
1883 and 1854, and, who after taking
legal advice, claim to be entitled : to the privileges secured by the -old pension minute of
1874,
that minute had not been
ad
replased by the new one at the time that they arrived in the Colony
a