being allowed, my appointment, being considered a professional one, I would respectfully submit that I have been in the Colonial Service nine years, not only in professional appointments - having previously filled the posts of Inspector of Immigrants in San Vicente, and Chief of Police in St Lucia.
The salary of my office, Assistant Harbour Master, has not been increased since 1875, but rather decreased - in as much as I do not receive the fifty-two dollars a month, paid to my predecessor, for the Export and Import office.
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4. The third shipping port in the world, in addition to the ordinary duties at this port, are associated those of Emigration, Customs, and the Gunpowder Depot.
5. Collection of Light Dues is a duty specially and separately attached to my post, and has been since 1875. Having been appointed in April 1875, the one hundred pounds allowed, appears in the Blue Book, though not on the estimates for that year, making the salary of two thousand four hundred dollars a year.
The revenue derived from Light Dues alone is between eighty and ninety...
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