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Enclosure 3.
Memorandum on Petitions received from Portuguese,
Indian and Chinese Government Servants
for increase of Salary.
C. O.
17001
11 MX 03)
On the 7th June 1898 His Excellency the Officer
Administering the Government in consequence of representa-
tions of the difficulty of obtaining Chinese employes for
one of the Government Departments, and having learnt that
certain increases of emolument had been granted to Asiatic
employes at Singapore, appointed a Committee to enquire into the question of increasing the salaries of Chinese employés
of this Government.
Before the Committee had reported a Petition was
received from the Chinese Civil Servants in Hong Kong praying
for a general increase of salaries.
This Petition was referred to the Committee.
At the same time a Petition was received from the
Portuguese and Indian Civil Servants in the Colony praying
for a general revision of their salaries.
On the 15th July 1898 the report of the Committee
which had been appointed to enquire into the subject of the
salaries of Chinese employes of the Government was received.
The Petition from the Portuguese and Indian members
of the Service, with a memorandum thereon by the then Acting
Colonial Secretary, together with the Petition from the
Chinese members and the report thereon of the Committee, were
forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colonies in
General Black's despatch No.271 of the 22nd September 1898.
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