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for three years, at first in the Surveyor General's Office, and subsequently in the Supreme Court, on the removal of the Land Office to the Judicial Department.
4. My Salary is $240.00 per month, with an allowance of $300 per year for rent.
5. This salary being, it is well-known, very inadequate to the position and to the responsibilities attached to it, I applied to the Government, through the Registrar of the Supreme Court in the usual manner, for an increase of $100 a month, that being the smallest increase I considered could possibly apply for or accept under the circumstances, but the Registrar now informs me that my application has been refused by the Secretary of State.
6. I cannot, however, think that all the circumstances relating to my position were brought to the notice of the Secretary of State, inasmuch as when I wrote my letter of application to the Registrar, I did so simply on the assumption that it would be decided by His Excellency the Governor in Council, who would be aware of the justice of my request, and that I had - before making it, waited for the expiration of the three years mentioned in my agreement, although I might reasonably have applied when the Land Office was removed to the Supreme Court.
7. The Salary of my appointment remains the same as it was forty years ago, but I may be allowed to mention (not by way of invidious comparison but simply to show the reasonableness of my application) that