out that Sir Hary Blake appears to have matosoked 2 The war din of the footnote to

Colonial Regulation 66. you will obseve is to the

That a pestion distinctly

states, that the limits

Λ

an not

£100 £200

or their equivalents, but

$100

600 and

$1200. This

imptiel afform to pt that

the dollar limits

need not

necessarily respond

ot intended to

exactly to the starting

lists.

3.

Laven of opinion,

Amore, that the

havever

wide dirigence beliveen

the sterling and the

No date

dollar limits is anomalous

and that the tallar limits

quen

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with advantage be raised. Whatting for #istatte is night in I shall be glad

Whether you

ha Kama

consider that,

as Six H Blake Suggests

in the case

of thy 33

Straits Settlements and

Hong Kong might pok be fixed at $1,000 and $2

This

2000

respectively.

attuation would, of cause'

#1000 should be taken to also abb to the

Comerford to ₤100

In cases

to

footnote to Colonial

which compensation Regulation No. 153;

allowance is attached #1000 is no doubt worth considerally

more than £100, and this consideration would

apper

the limit of $3,000

per

annu

for aft

Hts,

the offices selected

to the passage uygulation for which have thes

No 153. On the other

hande for the purpose of Regulations No. 66 and 76`d. there would be no great divergence between the two sums, in spite

the recent upward tending the exchange tralue of

2

The dollar

basszes faid, being

raised to $5,000 fu

4. Iwould not

bene cessay

I think, to make

change in

any Colonial Regulation

No. 99, since the

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