the price of Silver, the men now serving would lose by the present arrangement, as compared with the men to be hereafter enlisted; and they would be told that the option might be given to the present men of coming under the new scale at once if they elected.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Ed W. L. Brodrick
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C. C.
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5 DEC
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Treasury Chamber
27 January 1887.
In reply to your letter of the 10th instant, respecting the mode of calculating the pay of Jun Lascars at Hong Kong under Article 615 of the Pay Warrant of 10 June, 1884, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury request you to inform the Secretary Stanhope that they think it impossible to justify the present practice of converting the Financial ...
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