had to be abandoned.
Any change made could therefore only apply to Recruits regards such Recruits, enlisted hereafter as who would of course represent future Corps at Hong Kong, it is for consideration in what manner provision for securing that they shall be paid according to a fixed scale of dollars, instead of according to rates varying from year to year as the price of silver fluctuates in the London Market when compared with the price of gold.
One way out of the difficulty would be to insert a new scale in the Pay Warrant such scale to be in Dollars and to be based on the number of Dollars which the men now serving receive according to the regulated rate of exchange for the present year, which may probably be taken as fair for the purpose.
Or the difficulty might be met by retaining the present Rupee scale, but fixing a rate at which that scale shall be converted into Dollars for the purpose of payment; and thus avoiding the exchange from Rupees into Sterling which is at the root of the present trouble.
To these changes, as indeed to any change there are obvious objections