this allowance to
your fa... vourable consideration. Un
der other charges the item for Clerk of Councils for in "cidental expenses" has been reduced from $340 to $100. The abolition of the #240 al- lowance for Mandarin Reach er makes the total vote for this department in 1899 less
than the vote in 1898.
10.
11.
Audit Department. No remarks.
Treasury.
For
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For confirmation of the changes in the salaries of the
4th and 5th clerks, I beg to re-
to fer
your despatch No: 920 of the 30th August last.
Public Works Depart-
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ment.
The proposed increase
of $20 a month in the salary of the
Land Bailiff will, In hope, be approved. The officer in question M. G. J. W. King. has 17 years' service, is tho- roughly acquainted with
Chinese