I am now soliciting from the Secretary of State; by submitting that in the last ten years my duties have multiplied more than fourfold with the extraordinary development of this rapidly growing Colony, and that the Sanitary Board, an entirely new Department of Government of greater importance even than that of Public Works, and involving very largely extended cares and responsibilities, has been placed under my management without any remuneration, although it is the rule of the Government to accord some increase of salary when an officer's duties are very largely added to.
I venture to hope that my application will, as a mere matter of equity, meet the favourable consideration of the Government, and that His Excellency the Administrator, and also His Excellency W. M. Secretary of State for the Colonies will be equally pleased to give it their support.
I have to state that J. M. Price, Surveyor General.
Enclosure Q
C. O.
Surveyor General to Acting Colonial Secretary
No 260.
Public Works Department,
24th November, 1882.
With reference to the Earl of Kimberley's despatch No 1608 of the 8th of August, 1882, abolishing the land sale fees granted to the Surveyor General, and to the Duke of Buckingham's Colonial Office despatch No 111 of the 15th of September, 1867, I think it only just to myself to acquaint His Excellency, for the information of His Lordship the Secretary of State, that I have not taken to myself any fees whatsoever for conducting the sales of Crown lands since I have been Surveyor General of Hong Kong.
To
The Hon : F. Stewart, LL.D.
Acting Colonial Secretary