Shaits Sett/ and the Federated Malay States, viz, the extension of the allowance from half to the whole of their salaries.
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addressing you fully on this subject in another despatch, and you are aware from my telegram of the 12th instant that I must have the consent of the Legislative Council in regard to it as a condition of the grant, but it, as I trust the Legislative Council will agree, it will be necessary to provide for doubling the vote of $1,20,200 which was appropriated for Exchange Compensation upon the 1902 Estimates.
Your despatch No. 454 of the 31st October ... You submitted a complete estimate of the cost of the New Kowloon Waterworks Gravitation Scheme, which will, if adopted, increase the total cost of the scheme from $380,000 to $835,000 and an additional expenditure of 1902 of $140,000. You observe that the sum of $100,000 placed in the 1901 Estimates for this work has scarcely been drawn upon, but I presume that the saving on this vote is included in the total of ...
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