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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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C.O. 882

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