was
and males in the mercantile Marine as in the past in future to be fixed at-
a year all fees being
$2,6440 a
paid into the Treasury" 8 of By Sec. XV
52
Part of my salary therefore
was treated as an allowance
in lieu of fees
and I am
now called upon to refund
as
ance
W
salary
?
Nonsense,
of Ordinance
1899 (yet unamended) when on the Board of Examiners as a commissioned officer of the Royal Navy entitled to a fee of $5 for
am
each examination, stio
Excellency the Officer Administering the Government
in his minute dated 25th
April 1890 on C.S.O. 666 directed that these fles should be drawn by accordance with the ordnance and then refunded by me in accordance with the
me
in
directions of the Secretary of State. This was done
Part-
what
was then
apparently looked upon
as an allavance.
10.
years
For the previous tên
80 to 89 inclusive the number of examinations
45 per
have
averaged
annum which at $5 each would make $225 in
go
the
number of examinations were 82 and up to date this year yo. therefore although of # 240 included
the sum
in the pay of the Assistant-
Starbour Master would
appear to be a fair equivalent- fair-equivalent- for for the fees on the average of the past
leir
years it falls very far short of what.
the