first clow
claw Government with reference to the Slovener's Pension Act, that is,
one in which the salary of the - Toveruser is £5,000 stesting for annum.
5. Though the salary of the Governor of Hongkong is fixed- £5000 by the Civil List Ordinance
1860, and though by
at
another
J
2
(Indrisance which fixes 4/2 eterting
A o
of
the equivalent of the dollar, the
actual salary
do
paid, $24,000,
appear to represent £5,000 sterling,
I cannot avoid the fear that at the tive when the question of my
prension
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pension comes up for consideration, Her Majesty's Treasury may hold
that with
reference
to a
payment
from the Imperial Treasury,
law canuot
qualify
a distint
a
local
-provision of an Imperial 4t, so as
of money
to attach to a
a Quin
-value which it dow not possess:
and if this fear should prove to be justified I shall there in addition
immediate low suffer a
tox
the
67 heavy
reduction.
of £2.50 per
my pension .
6. There
still another
aspect
in