1262.
95
15
Works:--
Quarters' Assistant Commissioner
$11,000
Quarters for Secretary
4,000
Purchase and alteration of three Chinese houses
2,000
Gaol
1,500
Contingencies and repairs ...
1,500
$20,000
Furniture for quarters, offices, gaol, &c.
3,500
$23,500
Roads:--
Coast Road
$36,000
Improving mule tracks
6,000
$42,000
Establishments (recurrent)
52,000
Works and roads (non-recurrent)
65,500
$117,500
To which may be added:-
Lighting of harbour Mail service
$15,000
10,000
$25,000
No. 80.
SIR,
COLONIAL OFFICE to TREASURY.
[Answered by No. 82.]
Downing Street, January 18, 1901. WITH reference to paragraph 4 of the letter from this Department of the 11th instant, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, a copy of a lettert from the War Office, respecting the salary of the Commissioner at Wei-Hai-Wei.
2. Mr. Chamberlain would suggest for their Lordships' consideration that the salary of the Commissioner should be fixed at £1,150 a year, with an entertainment allowance of £200 a year, which would be drawn in full by the Commissioner's locum tenens, and a house allowance of £150 a year, to cease as soon as proper quarters are ready for the Commissioner's occupation.
Enclosure in No. 79. Establishments, &c.
Commissioner
Assistant Commissioner
$15,000 5,000
Secretary and Financial Assistant
1,800
Clerk and Interpreter
600
Second Clerk and Postmaster
600
Chinese Writer
480
Two mounted Orderlies at $96
192
Two Orderlies at $84
168
Allowance to Superintendent Police
1,200
Allowance to Surgeon
600
Allowance to Superintendent Works (Royal
Engineer Officer)
600
Overseer of Works (Indian or Chinese)
$1,800
2885.
Gaoler and Warders
528
Five pony
allowances (Commissioner and
mounted Orderlies,
and Superintendent
Works)
900
Transport and personal allowance
800
Purchase of ponies for Orderlies
200
Office contingencies, stationery, uniforms, &c.
SIB,
700
Medical stores
600
Island Expenses
10,000
(Say)
$42,000
• No. 52.
38396: not printed.
‡ Nos. 33 and 35.
No. 81.
I am, &c.,
C. P. LUCAS.
TREASURY to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received January 24, 1901.)
[Answered by No. 83.]
Treasury Chambers, January 22, 1901.
I HAVE laid before the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury your letter, 39128/1900, of the 11th instant, relative to the probable requirements of the Civil Administration of Wei-Hai-Wei and the amount of the Grant-in-Aid which should be provided for in the Estimate for Colonial Services 1901-2.
• No. 79.
↑ No. 78.
‡ No. 79.
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