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tory financial statement for the
year 1897 presented
despatch, a
in this des
a re-con-
sideration of your decision in regard to the curtail-
ment of Publia Works Extraor
dinary during year and of your
of the proposed
of salary to the~
the current
of your disallow
ance
creases.
in
First Assistant Engineer in the Public Works Department
" and the Chinese clerk and
Collector in the Registrar General's
400
General's Office. The holders of both the appointments in question are thoroughly de- serving officers, and I trust that
your objections to the proposed additions to their salaries, which were
passed
unanimously by the unof ficial members, will be re- moved by the facts stated in this despatch.
3.
ask for.
I would further
a re-consideration
of your decision that iṛ
Badeley