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G. As regards those Members of the Service who are resident in the Colony, and who are principally Portuguese, the rate of expenditure is. naturally, considerably less, and would amount in a case similar to that given above to about $200 a month. A suum between $200 and $500 per month would fairly represent the expenditure which might be reasonably incurred by resident Officers holding the higher clerical appointinents, and by those non-resident who, though not Heads of Departments, hold positions of responsibility. The salaries of junior unmarried
Officers would, naturally, be in the proportion of % to g of those of their Seniors.
7. Unless these estimates are to be regarded as utterly unreasonable, a reference to the table of salaries at present paid will show how small a proportion they bear to the expenditure which their recipients (who it must be remembered are much more public men in the East than they are in the majority of cases in England) find themselves called upon to incur.
8. It may be urged that, so long as young men are to be found willing to enter the service at the present rate of pay, and to remain there, the rate must be suffi- cient, but we would submit that young men are always ready to accept any offer which appears at first glance promising, and that, after spending 5 or 6 years in the service, it is very difficult if not impossible for them to adopt any other pro- fession, however dissatisfied they may be with their remuneration. That dissatis- faction among the members of the Service is most undesirable is an opinion of His Excellency to which he has, ou more than one occasion, given expression.
9. I attach a list of the salaries paid to a number of the Officers in 1860 and now, from which it will be seen that, while both the population and the revenue have more than doubled during that period, in only 7 out of 39 cases has the }}}} of those Officers as estimated in dollars been increased, while, in all but two instances, there has been a decrease (amounting in 32 eases to over 25 per cent.) in the pay as estimated in sterling, in which it must be remembered much of the expenditure has to be met. Appointments made more recently have not been so injuriously affected, though, as will be sceu, the unfortunate fall in the dollar has left none undisturbed.
I have the honour to be,
Chief Justice,
Colonial Secretary,
Puisne Judge,
Attorney General,
Colonial Treasurer,
Auditor Gouerul,
Surveyor General,
Police Magistrates,
Postmaster General,
Colonial Chaplaiu,
Colonial Surgeon,
Harbour Master.
Registrar General,
1860. Ordinance 18.!
1889.
Name of Office.
8=42. Pay
$=3/04. Pay
1860, Ordinance 13
6=42. $=3,04.
Pay per annum in per annum in per annum ini per annum in Dollars. Dollars. Sterling. Sterling.
1889.
Pay
Governor and Commander-in-Chief,
$ 24,000
$
£
ざ
24,000
5,000
3,650
12,000
12,000
2,500
1,825
7,200
7,200
1,500
1,095
jincluding Auditorship.
The olieu of Puispe
Jadige was establietad
8,160
1,500
1,241
in 1873 when the salary
was fixed at 5,160.
4,800
4,800
1,000
730
4.800
960
1,000
146
Merged in anocker
Offee.
2,400
Merged in Caloriai
Secretaryhty.
500
4,800
6,760
1,000
876
3,840
3,840
800
684
8,830
3,840
800
584
Registrar of Supreme Court,
3.840
5,040
800
766.10,0
3,840
8,840
800
584
3,840
4,800
800
730
and Private Practice.
no Private Practice.
3,360
4,800
700
730
8,360
5,040
700
766.10.0
Clerk of Councils,
960
960
200
146
Private Secretary,
1,200
1,920
250
292
C.S.0. Chief Clerk,.
2,400
2,400
500
365
First
19
1,920
1,920
400
292
Sir,
13
Second
1,440
1,440
300
219
!!
*
Your obedient Servant,
Third
1,344
1,844
280
204.8.0
"
Treasury, First Clerk,.
1,920
1,920
400
292
N. G. MITCHELL-INNES, for the Committee.
Second
1,440
1,440
300
219
12
Audit Clerk,..
1,1:10
1,920
500
292
Honourable F. STEWART, LL.D.,
Colonial Secretary,
je.,
&C.,
&c.
33
15
Public Works' Department, First Clerk,.......{
Second,
2,400
1,920
500
292
1,140
1,440
300
219
Magistracy, First Clerk,
1,920
1,920
400
292
Second
1,440
1,410
300
219
11
Third
960
960
200
146
11
Post Office, Assist. Postmaster General,...-
2,100
2,400
500
365
Clerk,
1,140
1,440
300
219
Supreme Court, Crown Solicitor,
1,200
1,200
250
182.10.0
Depury Registrar,
1,920
2,760
400
419.13.0
Clerk of Court,.............
1,410
300
Judge's Clerk,
1,440
1,440
300
219
Harbour Office, First Clerk,
1.920
1,920
400
292
Second
1,440
1,140
300
210
55
Registrar General's Office, First. Clerk,...
1,110
1,920
300
192
Recond
1,200
1,440
250
219
11
For Offices not referred to in Ordinanco 13 of 1860, vide following page.