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Chambers
Supreme Court.
Bro 7 day
Hong Kong, 30th November, 1894,
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge Your Excellency's letter of the 26th instant respecting compensation to Officers for the fall in exchange.
In thanking Your Excellency for the same, and with reference to full pay to be drawn in England, I would respectfully submit that in fixing the rate thereof full consideration should be given to the fact that only one-half of the pay on Service is affected by the Secretary of State's proposal, viz: that half of which is benefited by compensation exchange allowance, while the other half is left untouched.
Therefore no increase being received in respect thereof where an officer goes on vacation leave and receives his full salary, one half should be paid (if the Secretary of State rejects the Memorial of the Civil Service) at 3 shillings and the other half at the present rate of 4 shillings or 4/2, as the case may be, because this half has received no benefit whatever from the compensation allowance and therefore there is no reason why any alteration should be made in respect thereof in the existing rate.
His Excellency
The Governor.
I have,&c.,
(Sd.) Edw. J. Ackroyd
Acting Chief Justice.