branch in dan Francisco, by which the Bank should pay him his salary in America
C
in sterling, and the Government
pay
the Bank here the
So that be
would licen
ens of dollore
pum o
equivalent in local currency.
The latter arrangement
3.
: appears to have been made
previous occasion (in
1885_ in the case
and it was on
of D. Wharry), the presedent
established by that ease that the present application
suade.
was
4
4.
I
am not aware,
423
however,
of any authority
authority by which, salaries can be drawn out of
the Colony otherwise than through the constituted agents of the Government, and as arrangements of a private nature as described above would lead to much
inconvenience and possible abuse, I declined to accede to M Rogers' request, on the : ground that Your Lordship'é
instructions.
are that salaries
if