558
dollars, and
for the maintenance
of my family and
payment of
in
the
insurance premia
I have to remit home annually
six hundred pounds
and
annually
At the present moment
pound sterling exchanges for
little
over ten dollars and
thus over six thousand of my
seven thousand dollars are
gone in exchange. My rent
alone
is
one
hundred dollars
a month, and besides this
there are all the expenses
of servants, living, and so
forth.
I have
very earnestly
to ask Your Lordship for some relief. The Unofficial members
in their remarks accompanying
their votes stated that the
hardships of depreciated silver
were
not
confined
to Civil
servants, but I have the
honour to respectfully submit that this is not the light.
way
in which this matter should
be viewed. Private individuals
have their
own methods
of
protecting their private interests,
and the State is not concerned
with them, but Civil Servants
have