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with a salary of $8160 a year
in addition to which he
has been given precedence after members of Executive Council.
(e)
Mr Stewart, whose
service is three weeks more
than mine, was
a Cadet, having
been promoted from the
Central School to the
Magistracy
in 1881, was
in 1883 further promoted
to the Registrar Generalship, and has recently been made a member of both Councils.
Lieut Colonel Dunlop, Inspector General of Police, Straits Settlements, has been made a C.M.G. He is
considerably junior to me, and the Police Force
at Singapore has been remodelled on the pattern of the Force under
my Command.
4.
I have quoted these
cases, unactuated by the
smallest desire to cavil
at or to complain of these appointments, but with the simple purpose of
suggesting, that,
as for over eighteen years I have commanded
one of the most difficult departments
in the Colony,
I consider my services are entitled to recognition,
especially as the recent promotion of my junior
must tend to make the residents,
who are unversed
in the motives that regulate
Appointments, feel...