As regards the (so called) First Clerk in this Department, Mr M. Entierrez, I concur the new expression ed in your despatch No 5 of 14 January, that he has claim to be treated as though he held the same post as the First Clerk of the Dept. in 1895 who had to perform additional duties since transferred to the Land Dept. But I think that off the pay proper of his past be regarded raised from $1440 to $1728, he has as a matter to retain personal allowance the $450 which he has drawn for some years over and above the ...