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be six vacancies in the European Force,
and that I should be unable to recommend
being
enlisted in England -
except upon a higher rate
of pay
in dollars. I have no hesitation in
recommending that the straight forward plan should be adopted, as it is in the
and Corvular
Naval, Military,
Sevices
in China, of fixing the Saberies in sterling and paying
the
men in dollar aba rate calculated-
the
On average value
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of the
the dollar
during the preceding year.
To pest the matter in the simplest arithmetical forn, forty dollars a cuonth is equal to four
· years.
hundred and Eighty dollar a Now the extreme purchasing value of
the dollar is three
shillings
and three
pence
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pence, three farthings; therefore four
hundred and
eighty dollars
are worth
seventy wine pounds ben shillings. An orde
ordinary first class constable in London receives at least £18
cannot
a
year. I
therefore expect that this Goverment will obtain men
a salary
satisfactory character for of £1.10.08 more than would be paid in England to men discharging
similar duties.
(Signed) It. M. Deane Capt. Supt of Police.
ellarch, 1886