Enclosure 244
Police Department,
Hongkong, 3rd December, 1890.
The Right Honourable
The Secretary of State for the Colonies.
My Lord,
I have the honour most respectfully to lay before your Lordship for favourable consideration the case in connection with the general increase of salaries of Public Officers of this Colony.
2. In the draft Estimates for 1891, which have been prepared in accordance with your Lordship's dispatch No. 110 of the 19th June 1890, I have been precluded from receiving an increase to my salary on the grounds that it had already been raised since 1875.
3. Formerly the salary of the office, which I now hold, was underpaid in comparison with the other Clerks holding equal relative rank in the service, and in 1881 on the strong representations made by the Captain Superintendent of Police, His Excellency the Governor recommended that