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As regards the increases granted to Li-Chak-nan, teacher at Saiyinggun School, and Ch'an-U-ting, teacher at the Wantsal School, I have to explain that prior to the sanction of the general increase their salaries had been readjusted by amalgamating their allowances of $78 per annum for quarters, bringing the salary up to $180 per annum in the one case and to $804 per annum in the other, with an examination grant of $$4, $42, or $60 according to results.
The salary of Mrs.Ho-Yeung-shi has only been in- creased from $36 to $48 (instead of to $84) per armun under the scheme, because she merely attends classes at the school
of which her husband is lead Master in order that the proprieties
may be observed.
5. In the Queen's College the salaries of the 5th. and 6th. Chinese Assistants have been increased to 8606 per ammun which is $6 more than the maximum of the incremental scale
upon which they appear in this year's Estimates, but they will not be entitled to any further increments, in order to avoid an overlapping of the salaries of their Seniors.
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6. In the Banitary Board the salary of the Interpreters M40 rising to $300 per annum by $18 annually.
The scale requires now to be readjusted, and I suggest for insertion in the Estimates for 1901 a scale of 8864 rising to $458 per annum by $24 annually.
7. It will be observed that the scheme of increase
suggested by the Committee in their report of the 15th. or July 1998 when qualified by the last paragraph of General Black's despatch No.871 of the 22nd. of September 1898, stops short at salaries of $600 per annum.
This has occasioned an anomaly in the Public Works Department, for the salary of Mr.Wong-Lai-sang,Clerk in the Crown Land and Surveys Branch, is increased from $45 to 855
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