them under that rule. In the meanwhile, as it has
been represented to me ~
that Chinese masters are
invariably engaged from the beginning of the New Year, and that consequently these teachers would find it almost impossible to obtain employment at the present time, I have permitted them to continue to draw their present salaries till the end of the year,
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year, to which course, as the amount involved is small,
I trust there will be no objection.
3. You will see that I have also to request authority for the creation of the new post of clerk at a salary of $30 a month ~ rising to $40 and have in the meanwhile appointed temporarily, at $30 a month, M. U-Hangham, who appears to be well fitted for the discharge of the duties which he is