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necessitate an ending Ordinance,
but without making the above
alterations difficulties would arise in the keeping of accounts
and in the calculation of the pensions paid from the fund.
All Officers in the Subordinate Establish-
(I.)
ment who may join the Government Service after the 31st December, 1901, and whose salaries are paid in silver, shall, when
going on leave or pension to countries having a gold standard,
draw their leave and pension pay at the current rate of exchange for the dollar. In other words, the privilege of drawing
leave salaries and pensions at fictitious rates should be entirely abolished in respect of Officers who join the service
after the date mentioned.
(7.)
Food, light and fuel allowances should be
discontinued and merged in salary.
(G.)
No pension should exceed in amount the sum
of £1,000 Sterling per annum.
14.
Turning to the salaries of individual
offices, I have to submit the following remarks on the proposals
contained in the scheme, basing them on the views of the
Committee.
As regards the proposed salaries of Chief
Justice, Colonial Secretary, Puisne Judge and Attorney General,
I am of opinion that these salaries ought to be equal to those
paid in Straits Settlements, remembering in the case of the Colonial Secretary here that he has not a house supplied as at
Singapore.
Class I. The Principal Civil Medical Officer has
been included in this class as his duties are now of a very
onerous and responsible nature. The privilege of free quarters
has been withdrawn.