DRAFT.
Gov
Memo
10.48.
Sir,
34994/99
Hong Kong.
Doring Street,
16th February, 1900.
***
Mr H.Blake.
MINUTE.
Macnaghten 14/2
Johnson 15 fs. ir V. Hamilton. r. Antrobus.
1. Cor.
b. Lucas,
5. Graham,
E. Wingfield.
l of Selborne.
r. Chamberlain,
10500
I have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your despatch No.324 of the
14th November last, enclosing a copy of the
Report of the Committee which you appointed
to enquire into the Salaries of Chinese
Government employees, and recommending that
their salaries should be increased somewhat
on the lines indicated in the Committee's
Report.
2. In my telegram of the 14th instant
I informed you that I approved the scheme
for increasing the salaries of the Chinese
in the Government service, submitted in
Major-General Black's despatch No.271 of the
22nd September 1898, except as regards the
salaries of Post Office employees, which had
already been increased in accordance with my despatch No.152 of the 20th July last.
3.
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