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10. Dealing with the appointments in List A., I recommend that every officer, from the Resident-General downwards, who is now appointed to a sterling salary, shall count no emolument for pension except his salary and any personal allowance which he may hereafter be granted. I also recommend that, in the case of the Resident- General and Residents, borse allowance be abolished, and that no officer in the Service be granted any extra years for professional services.

On that understanding I recommend a salary of £2,500 for the Resident-General, and if it is considered that 27 years ago the first Resident of Perak was appointed on £2,000 a year, while £1,500 was the salary allotted to the Resident of Selangor, I think you will not regard my proposals for the staff appointments as extravagant. As you are aware, the position of a Resident in the Federated Malay States is an ex- ceptional one. Besides his general work and great responsibilities, he has to deal with a State Council and is the medium of communication between the Government and the Ruler and his Chiefs. The extent of territory under the Resident's adminis- tration is very large, and a great deal of entertaining is necessarily forced upon him. suggest that all Residents should receive an entertainment allowance of $1,200 per

annum.

11. I suggest, for your consideration, that the post of Resident-General might be held for five years, and be included in the list of Colonial Governors, &c., which appears on page XX of the Colonial Office List, 1901.

12. If you agree to these proposals I recommend a new departure in the case of the officer who, at any time, may temporarily discharge the duties of Resident- General. You will notice that I have abolished the entertainment allowance hitherto attached to the office of the Resident-General, in consideration of the increase in that officer's salary; but, as he will from time to time take leave of absence, and, when on vacation, his locum tenens will only draw his own salary, and, if a Resident, would lose his entertainment allowance, and so be actually worse off during the period of the vacation leave, I recommend that the Acting Officer (but not the Resident- General) receive an entertainment allowance at the rate of $200 a month.

13. I have put the salary of the Legal Adviser at £1,300, the same as the Attorney-General in the Colony. The Legal Adviser has no private practice of any kind, his work is very important and heavy, and the office must be well paid to secure the qualifications required. At the urgent request of the Resident-General I have entered his Secretary in Class I., but, to this officer and the Commissioner of Police, Federated Malay States, I have allotted salaries of £1,020. The work of the Resident- General's Office has so greatly increased that it is necessary to give him, as Secretary, the most able and experienced officer available; one whose position in the Service will carry weight with the Residents and Heads of Federal Departments. In time, I expect, the value of this post will have to be raised to £1,200. The Commissioner of Police is placed at £1,020 because the similar office in the Colony is entered at £1,000. In the Federated Malay States the area to be policed is 25,000 square miles and the population over 600,000.

14. As regards the other classes of the Cadet Service, I have no special remarks to offer; except that I have made the salaries the same as those of similar classes in the Colony and added a sixth class. I have slightly reduced the existing salary of the District Officer, Lower Perak, and put him on a level with the other more im- portant District Officers in Class III. In a note, I have stated that the senior Police appointments, the heads of the State Postal and Telegraph Departments, and the Wardens of Mines, will not necessarily be confined to Cadets, though they should be open to those who take the trouble to qualify themselves for what must always be accounted special posts. The salaries of Cadets and Passed Cadets have already been decided by you.

15. As there is but one Judicial Commissioner in the Federated Malay States, it is necessary that the salary be sufficient to secure a really able and experienced lawyer for the post. I have suggested £1,500 (there should be no allowances beyond the travelling allowances fixed by General Orders), and that is but slightly in excess of the dollar salary now paid, together with double compensation. With existing privileges the present salary is better than the one I now propose.

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16. The whole of the sterling salaries provided for the Malay States Guides com- Malay pare unfavourably with the existing dollar rates and the privileges which attach to States them. Still I consider the sterling salaries proposed are fair and sufficient.

Guides.

17. I have put the Director, Public Works Department, at £1,200 (the same Public as the Colonial Engineer), and I have ascertained that Mr. Caulfeild (the officer Works De- recently appointed to this post) is prepared to accept that salary, resigning all the partment. special privileges he now enjoys except that of counting extra years for professional qualifications. The other sterling salaries in this department compare unfavourably with the existing dollar rates and the privileges of leave pay and pension at special rates, because, within the last twelve months, you have sanctioned a scheme for im- proving the position of officers in this department, and directly afterwards came double compensation which, of course, gave higher rates than had been anticipated.

18. The only remarks I have to make on these proposals are that in a few years Medical may be advisable to appoint a Principal Medical Officer, Federated Malay States, Depart on £1,000 without any private practice, while you may consider that, as most of the ment, Surgeons in the Colony and the Veterinary Surgeons in Singapore and Penang are to receive £360 to £480, the same amounts should be entered in the Federated Malay States. Should you so decide I have no objection, provided it is perfectly clear that there are no claims to private practice, and the exercise of it will be strictly subject to the permission of the Government, which will grant or refuse it as it pleases, and without question. Otherwise I incline to the view that the sums I have entered for the District Surgeons and Veterinary Surgeons in the Federated Malay States should

remain.

19. The salaries of the officers employed in this special work can best be deter- Instituta mi ed in England. Those so employed should be on agreement, not on the pension- Medical all establishment, and the sums I have entered have been estimated as sufficient on that basis.

20. The Marine, Mines, Police, Gaols, Education, Municipal, Museums and Miscellaneous Departments call for no special remark.

Research.

21. There is no Survey Department in the Colony, while in the Federated Malay Surveys. Stites there are two, one for Trigonometrical and the other for Revenue Surveys. A this moment an enquiry is being held into the cost and working of the Revenue Srvey, and, it is probable that it will be placed under the general direction of the ('ef Surveyor. Even if that were done, it is unlikely that the terms of service which hve so recently been settled would be altered. You will see that, in the sterling r: tes now submitted for your approval, the objections raised in your despatch, No. 321, 4th December, 1901, have been met by increasing the rates. This increase is, in opinion, justified, as compared with the rates proposed for the Public Works Iepartment, and also to enable us to secure the services of thoroughly qualified men from England or the Colonies of Australia and New Zealand.

The remarks which I have made in paragraph 17 ante apply to this department.

22. The Printing Offices and Departments of Posts and Telegraphs require no special reference. I have, in Class II. of the Cadet Scheme, provided for a Federal Inspector of Posts and Telegraphs.

23. What I have said in paragraph 17 concerning the Director of Public Works Railways. may be repeated here in regard to the newly created office of General Manager, Rail- ays, Federated Malay States. I recommend that Mr. Spooner be given a salary of 1,200, without any other privilege beyond that of counting for pension such extra cars as he can now claim for professional qualifications.

As regards the other appointments in this department, I may say that I have gone nto them very carefully with the Resident-General and the General Manager, and I ecommend them for approval as they stand.

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