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salaries while on active service equivalent to half of their present salaries calculated at the rate 3% to the dollar.
J annex a copy Encl: 6. 15th March 1894, with a report of the debate on the resolution, from which it will be seen that an amendment to the effect that Your Lordship's proposal should not be entertained until a retrenchment Committee had been appointed, and the recommendations of that Committee had been considered, was carried by the vote of the Unofficial Members, the Official Members abstaining from voting in accordance with an intimation by the Governor; and that the amendment was accepted by the Governor.
3. With reference to the allusion, in my speech, to my own case which I quoted instancing the anomalous fall in exchange on official salaries in the East