314.

at par should not cease, the highest proportion, namely, half of salary,

which is now

permitted to be

remithet for family purposes being

at the present rate of exchange only about 17 per cent of the whole.

27.

I do note epress any

decided opinion

on this point,

on

because I presume that it was -

definitely settled with reference to the Straits Settlement, where, a [leypon

understand, there was permitted,

Bone

years ago,

an

inonce

e a se

of

-salaries at the rate of 25 per cent.

I

230

I surely refer to it, so that it shatl

Isurely

not escape

28.

salary,

attention,

The

ca se

of the Governon

which was

referred to in.

Finance Committee without previous

euggestion

my part, involves separate considerations. The

Unofficial Member of Conveil

geve

to be

it, Jam

informed,

understood av their unanimo

nimons

opinion that his not emolument should certainly not be less than at any previons tiones. After considering the subject I have on the whole

deemed

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