$
Be
00 P Y.
Enclosure 4.
NO.115.
C.O
RECO
7253 130
Per 26 FEB OF
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hong Kong,
: 17th. January, 1901.
sir,
- With reference to thefer charges against
you which were investigated by the Executive Council in your
presence on the 10th day of December 1900, I am directed to
inform you that while acquitting you of the last charge,.
the Council consider the and charge proved against you as
regards the first and third charges although the money may
have been“ paid directly to'your son; it was paid to him in.
the Land Office and the Council consider you were a party
to and cognisant of the transactions.
In the result, the Council feel that you
have improperly availed yourself of your position in the
Land Office to obtain for your son, at an extremely high
rate of remuneration employment with reference to the trans-
lation of Chinesef deeds of land in the New Territory and the
preparation and verification of Memorials theref.
The translations might properly have
been made in the Land Office gratuitously a translator
having been specially appointed for the purpose in September
1899.
In view of all the circuntances of the
case the Executive Council are of opinion that you should
be required to serve at a reduced salary for a period of 2
years. His Excellency has accordingly decided that the extra
emolument you receive as personal allowance should not be
allowed to you for a period of two years from 1st January
· 1901
Nr. J. C. WONG.