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of salary to a deduction
on their total
of 4%
emoluments of whatever nature payable out of the Colonial Treasury, and I gather from Your Lordship's despatch W.237 of 2nd
October, 1891, that the value
of free quarters should
be considered as
forming
part of such emoluments. I enclose for Your Lordship's
consideration
a
copy of a
report by the acting
Colonial
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Conclos 17th frame 1892.
Colonial Treasurer on the question of the exemption of certain officers from liability to contribute in respect of the annual value of their free quarters. I hardly think that, sufficient
cause is shewn
for the proposed exemption,
inasmuch as the salaries
of the officers in question
were
presumably fixed
with regard to their
circumstances, including
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