Government House,
Hongkong, 21st December, 1906.
I have the honour to ask for a ruling from Your Lordship as to how the salary of the Attorney General should be calculated for the purpose of paying an officer acting in the post who in his substantive post receives a dollar salary.
2. The point has arisen in the case of Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz whose substantive post is that of Assistant Colonial Secretary and who did not accept a sterling salary on the institution of the scheme of Sterling Salaries.
3. At the time of the institution of that scheme the salary of the Attorney General was the same as that of the Puisne Judge, viz: $8,400 per annum at 3/- to the dollar. But on the appointment of Sir Henry Berkeley to be Attorney General his salary was fixed at £1,500; and
My Lord,
the payment of half salary one of each post to ... not make exaction.
... salary & half ...? Replace that's half.
... hard to his ... the dollar salary of the A-G (Wh: ... be regarded as the ... No. 313. Hongkong. in all such ...
... salary of that post ... & in ... & that the ... repels that he cannot authorize the payment of ... half of the salary of each post.
(the half salary is only $5400 ... so that the ... per cent ... considerably ... 4 acting).
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I agree ... both points: the first is in ... the ... seen file. make ... Jollans ... 82 ... and the ... thony ... which we have ... dollars always on ... the 2nd, the Col. Reg. unless there an Exceptional case was ... hold good ... my long ... such as ... tenure of the acting ... 24 CPL at once ... 25
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
&c. &c. &c.
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