No.
29
C.O.
649/77
REC
A
Read 27 FEB
Government House,
Hongkong,
A
January,
1900.
29483-
99
Sir,
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch 255 of the 10th November, last, relative to the salaries of the European police-force in Hongkong.
2. The Captain Superintendent of Police has carefully considered the revised scale of pay which you have sanctioned in the despatch under acknowledgment, and I have considered the matter further in conjunction with the Executive Council, of which the Captain Superintendent of Police is not a member.
3. I have now the honour to transmit herewith a copy of a Minute by the Captain Superintendent of Police (inclosure, Jan'y. 1900), from which it appears that in his opinion the increases...
C RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., &c., &c., &c.
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