of the Hong Kong Police
2. As regards this pay to be assigned to My Office, I approve of Mr. Many drawing at the rate of $54.00 per annum, pending the report of the Committee on the Establishments of this Colony, which in my despatch of today's date I have requested them to appoint, and I have desired him to be warned that his receiving pay at that rate gives him no vested claim to continuance of that salary beyond the present year or of any salary higher than $...
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3. I request you to inform the other local candidates that I carefully considered their claims, but regret that I have been unable to meet their wishes.
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of the Hong Kong Police
2. As regards this pay to be assigned to My Office, I approve of Mr. Many drawing at the rate of $54.00 per annum, pending the report of the Committee on the Establishments of this Colony, which in my despatch of today's date I have requested them to appoint, and I have desired him to be warned that his receiving pay at that rate gives him no vested claim to continuance of that salary beyond the present year or of any salary higher than $...
3. I request you to inform the other local candidates that I carefully considered their claims, but regret that I have been unable to meet their wishes.
4. The question