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emoluments being $2,449 they thus would really be $2,228, that is $172 less than the existing salary.
5. I feel assured that this result of the application of the general principles of the Despatch could not have been Your Lordship's intention, and that it is only necessary to lay the case before you in order to obtain the benefit which I seek.
Under these circumstances I would humbly and respectfully suggest that in addition to the 35% increase on my emoluments of 1875-I should be allowed to retain my full personal allowance, instead of the diminished one of $360 which has been proposed. After deducting from the increase the sum which I should lose by the withdrawal of the privileges of making family remittances, the actual increase would be only about $429, or 14% increase on my present emoluments.
6. In anticipation of its being argued that the benefit of personal allowances received since 1875 are sufficient compensation, I would respectfully beg to submit for your Lordship's consideration that personal allowances were given for special service or merit, and that the burden of greatly increased cost of living, for which the proposed increases have been chiefly provided, weighs fully as much on those receiving personal allowances as on others, and that the fact that special service or merit was recognised should be still acknowledged by Your Lordship kindly allowing full participation in the proposed 35% increases.
7. If other reasons in favour of my cause are necessary to strengthen the claim, I would very respectfully...