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Council, I have granted Mr. Bruce Shepherd, Deputy Land Officer, a personal allowance
per
of Six hundred dollars annum, making his total
einolumements equal to
those
of
the Deputy Registrars
of the Supreme Court.
2. Mr. Shepherd
was
appointed in 1882, with a
salary of
418
3
to be First
sixty dollars a year, Clerk in the Surveyor General's Department, and Clerk of the
$600.
Deed Registry
Two thousand four $2,400
hundred dollars per annum, and an allowance for
for house
rent
of three hundred and $360
sixty
in the Land
Office. Subsequently the - Land Office
was removed.
to the Supreme Court, where Mr Shepherd has continued
to
carry
on his duties under
the title of Deputy Land Officer.
3.
for
In 1886 he
applied
an increase of salary,
and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonel Stanley,
while
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