#960 per annum).
4.
Several applications have been addressed to me for the appointments thus vacated, and I shall forward them as soon as possible together with certain recommendations that some of the offices held by Mr Lister should no longer be combined in one and the same person.
I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient Servant, [Illegible: likely "Slurring"]
15.) (6669)
PARTICULARS of the Office now vacant at the Colonial Treasury
The Colony of Hongkong,
[REG 25 AUG 90.
546
Colonial Treasurer. Ex officio Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils.
Duties of office, and qualifications required for their performance.
Salary and emoluments, and whether secured by a permanent law.
Other circumstances affecting the value of the office.
Nature, number, and amount of securities required, and mode of giving them.
Whether any, and if any, what provision is made from public funds for the passage from this country, or elsewhere, of the persons sent out to fill the office.
Acts or Ordinances making provision respecting any of the above matters, and especially respecting the permanency of the emoluments, the particulars of the security required, with references to the sections in which such provision is made.
Receives the Revenue of the Colony, nearly two millions of dollars. Travelling vouchers for Audit in London. Qualification required. Lengthened service and standing in the service.
Five hundred and sixty dollars a year only.
Civil List provides £1000 a year, from which above reduced salary is paid.
None.
Ten thousand dollars (rather more than ten years' salary).
By Sureties.
None.
Ordinance 18 of 1860 (Civil List)
None.