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✨ dated in the Registrar General's Department, but a sum of $500 has · been inserted for rent of temporary offices in out Ddstricts when the Court and its staff has to move

· about the country.

· 16 Ecclesiastical.

-No. remarks.

· 17. Bducation. The salaries of the various Chinese Mas-

+

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ters and Teachers are now separately showE+

· In certain cases the saleries have

been re-adjusted, and grants are made, in lieu of fixed

salary, to the Masters in proportion to the efficiency of their schools in examinations.

1

These minor changes involve a small in

crease in Estimated Expenditure which will however pro- bably not be incurred as the full examinationė grants are not all likely to be earned.

1* $400..

The grant to the

French Convent School

The enormous increase in rents all over

the Colony involves' such a strain on the resources of grant-in-aid Schools that unless they receive extra as- (sistance many of them must close. A sum of $8,100 has been inserted to provide for such extra assistance.

Provision has also been made for build- ing granta on the basis of an annual expenditure of $1000 for such grants. |

If $3000 were expended next year or in

; the" next two years it is proposed that no further grants

should be made in 1908 and in 1903, or in 1905 in each

CEBO

Hitherto building grants have been paid

out of the grent-in-aid vote, which was never intended to bear such expenditure. During the current year the buildứ

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