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of Mr.
per mensen or 68 more than the monthly salary of $50 Tse--Tsan-tai,Clerk and Interpreter, who is the Senior of the
two officers in point of rank in the Department. To rectify this anomaly I have to recommend that the salary of Mr. Tse-T95n-tai
be increased to $660 per annum.
I have ascertained that no other cases have occurred
in which owing to the increases sanctioned under the scheme the salary of a Junior has been raised above that of a Senior
officer.
8.
With reference to the 4th. paragraph of your despatch
under acknowledgment, I have to remark that the reason comparE-
tively few increases of salary were granted under your despatõh
No.332 of the 23rd. of December 1898, was that very few of
the lower paid Chinese employes, who in view of paragraph 6 of the Committee's report were considered to be those with salaries of less than $800 per aimu, were in the Service
in 1890.
I have the honour to be,
sir,
Your most obedient
Humble Servant,
B.y. Gascoigne
Major-General
Administering the Government.