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on
see
a total salary of £1000 a year ( 20 Secretary of State's Oespectch 11242 of br May 28, 1875). But after this m
ungement was made, it was ascertained
arrangement
that the Cordon Post Office
year,
10000
witting
a
to continue paying
a certain ₤100 which had been granted to my predecessor for purely Imperial ducties,
and which had been wrongly regarded
personal allowance. The sum
No A
£100
xx
year
AVA2
of cr
d from.
therefore deducted,
my statutory salary
as Postinaster
General, and replaced by the £100 a year granted by the London Post Office; which latter susu, however, my predecessor had drawn over and
above his Colonial
rtow
salary.
would point out that I am performing the duties of Treasurer,
Postuvaster
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Postmaster General, and Stamp Collector
on.
the
cattu
salary as my predecessor
enjoyed for the two latter
Offices alone. I have several years longer service than he had when he retired. He, morcover,
held for considerable periods the post of Acting Police Magistrate, which gave hive £400 a year besides Prisfutt salary of £1200. I have not enjoyed any acting appointinct to speak of for the past ten years, and my time
is now
not
so fully occupied that Icould
Andertake one.
My predecessor was also
allowed to earn a
further £250.
year - for auditing the accounts
to of the. Hongkong and Shanghai Bouk, which I have, and I think quite
properly, not been allowed to do.
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