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efficient and reliable and that they should belong if possible
to the class of Chinese literati; and I am of the opinion
the
that the salaries now proposed are lowest for which suitable
clerks can be retained in the service of the Department.
5.
I have therefore to recommend that the
salaries of these Officers be increased to the amounts shewn
in the annexed schedule and that such increases be paid to
them from the 1st. of January 1903.
I have the honour to be,
sir,
Your most obedient
Humble servant,
Henry Ashake
Governor, be..