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out of the Colony, for whom the necessary sum might be remitted according to the rate of the officer's pay, and only that premia Insurances might be remitted. I enclose a Life balance sheet showing those who had permission to remit, and the ostensible objects of a remittance. From a comparison of those officers who exercise the right of remittance with those who have.
Enclosure
(Provisional)
have received increases under the new scheme of pay, certain anomalies arise. For instance His Honour the Chief Justice receives no increase, and taking the rate of exchange at 3/4, the rate ruling at the date at which the table was made up, he would incur an annual loss of $1,500 or 12 per cent on what has been the pay of his office for many years. Similarly the Deputy Registrar would lose