to the dollar, but just before. I left I was notified by the Colonial Secretary, and to my great surprise, that my pension would be at 3/8, and I obtained from the Colonial Secretary's Office a copy of an extract from
Despatch From The Secretary of State, dated the 26 February 1892, as
Enclosure A
which I do not remember having seen or heard of, containing the terms of the Settlement of the pension.
The increase to my salary granted was $40 a month on a Salary of $280 per mensem, say just a fraction over 14 %; which affects my pension by reducing it, at 3/8 by about £64 per annum. Had the increase been a dollar or two less my pension would have been at 4/8.
I had previously seen a despatch of Lord Knutsford dated June 1870 granting the general increase of Salaries, but in this despatch
Enclosure B
the Deputy Registrars received no increase whatever, but only subsequently in February 1892, and so far as I am aware the increase was granted on the recommendation of the Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court as contained in his letter of the 17 January 1891, a copy of which I beg to enclose.
In October last, before leaving Hongkong, my attention was specially drawn at the Colonial Secretary's Office to the lists published in the Hong Kong Gazette mentioning the names of late Officers entitled to receive pension at 4/8 and in which my name did not appear, but I had never had any doubt in my mind of receiving the maximum pension, bearing in mind Enclosure B, and having no recollection of or having seen Enclosure A.
Under these circumstances and