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officers: (b) the equivalent in sterling of the salaries
of the former at 3/- to the dollar: (c) the scale I now
recommend: (d) the salary of the equivalent post in the
Straits Settlements in sterling.
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Your Lordship will observe that
this Table contemplates a revision of the classification,
the District Officer being placed in Class II a grade to
which the responsibility of the post in my opinion
entitles him. I contemplate that the Official Receiver
who has also the large and responsible work of Trade Marks
and Patents will eventually be included in this class. I
have left the sterling salaries of Deputy Superintendent
of Folice and Assistant Superintendent of Police at their
fixcl
present figures because when these salaries were paid in
sterling they were made higher than the equivalent of the
+
Dollar Salaries ($3,600 $4,200 and $2,400
$3,000
respectively) converted at 3/- to the dollar; but in view
of the fact that Mr. Chamberlain in his Despatch No. 171
-2 of the 13th. June, 1902, placed these two posts in Classes
* M
II on a sterling basis I would ask whether Your Lordship
There
desires them to be kept in that classed.
I propose that the post of
Assistant District Officer should be fixed in sterling in
Class