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frequent in recent years and I must
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therefore ask you not to recommend any
further increases until you have satis-
fied yourself that such increases are
absolutely essential.
16.
In regard to the petitions
from the portuguese end India: Members
of the Civil Service and the petit on
from the Chinese Tembers of the Civil
Service which were enclosed in Major-
Jeneral Black's despatch c.271 of
the 22nd September last I would ob-
serve that the majority or these
Memorialists appear to have received
an increase of salary of 20
in 1890,
wheroes the Clerical Establishment in
the Straits Settlements with whom a
comparison is made in one of the
memorials received no general increase
until they were granted an increase of
10 last year.
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For this reason I am unable
to approve of any general increase of
salaries