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£150, instead of £100 a year, is now required, and in these circumstances the Comptroller and Auditor General
considers it equitable that the pay of the post of Clerk should be reconsidered, and he recommends, for the favour- able consideration of the Secretary of State, that from 1st January 1901 it be increased to $1,500 a year, with
Exchange Compensation.
5. This increase may necessitate some slight addition
I to the cost of Audit, fixed in 1890 at $10,000 a year.
am, however, to point out that the full amount allowed has
not been expended in the past, as the average annual expenditure from 1891 to 1899, both years inclusive, has been $9,442.68, or a total saving during that period of $5,015.88, notwithstanding that the Exchange Compensation, which for all other Departments is charged to a Special Head, has been charged in the case of the officers of this
Department to the Audit Vote.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your obedient servant
Owen