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Superintendent of Police on the subject of the proposed scale of pay in the Indian section of the Police Force and to express regret that for the reasons stated by the Captain Superintendent of Police
it has not been found possible to effect the retrenchment in that
direction which was recommended.
in my despatch N. 201 of the 4th September last.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord Marquess,
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Your Lorde 'rip's most obedient humble servant,
William
ENCLOSURE
Captain Superintendent of Police.
to Acting Colonial Secretary.
CONFIDENTIAL.No.2/95.
Sir,
RECR
C. O.
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Reef 4 APR 96
POLICE OFFICE,
Hong-Kong, 27th. February, 1895.
I have the honour to report that I have discovered that
the infor@ation regarding the pay and pension of the men of the
Hong-Kong Regiment upon which the Retrenchment Committee and
myself based our recommendations for the reduction of the pay of
the Indian Police was incorrect.
The information regarding the pay of the Hong-Kong Regi-
-ment which I obtained direct from Colonel Barrow, the Officer
Commanding, and which is appended to ay letter of the 4th. of Way
addressed to the Retrenchment Committee is defective in that it
does not contain the important item of deferred pay.
The mistake is entirely Colonel Barrow's whose statement
in writlag setting forth the detail of the pay and pension of his
regiment I bave in my possession.
No mention is made in it of deferred pay.
I find now, however, that Sepoys in the Hong-Kong Regi-
50 -ment receive $30 per annum or #2 a month as deferred pay for
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12 years, and Havildars receive the same allowance for 21 years.
The statement therefore in the 11th.paragraph of ay
letter of the 4th. of May that a private in the Hong-Kong Regiment
gets a pension of $20 per annum after 21 years service is incorrect
for he gets $30 X 12 = $380 in deferred pay (which may be regarded
as a sort of commuted pension) which reckoned at 10 years pur-
-chase is equal to an annual pension of 336. It would have been
more correct therefore to have set down the pension of a private-
b the Hong-Kong Regiment (for the purpose of conparison with that