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successors should continue to draw a house allowance of $720 a year, until quarters near the Gaol are provided. I trust that the provision of quarters will not be delayed so long as Sir W. J. Gascoigne appears to anticipate.

2. I also agree that the quarters in the Government Civil Hospital should be regarded as available for such officers as may be assigned to purely Hospital work.

3. In selecting a new Superintendent for the Botanical and Afforestation De- partment I am adopting the rates which you suggest in your despatch, No. 411, of the 12th ultimo. *

4. I approve the rates which are proposed for the sanitary appointments, sub- ject to an abatement of £32 a year in the case of officers who occupy free quarters.

5. Paragraph 8 of the Notes accompanying the salary scheme requires supple- menting, as it should have been added that officers on dollar salaries have the benefit of the 3s. rate for their widows' pensions, which will not be continued to officers on sterling terms.

6. Paragraph 2 of the notes is ambiguous, and does not explain that continued service on the maximum salary of a class only counts towards an increment in the class above when the maximum salary of the lower is the same as the minimum of the higher class.

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8. You will observe that I have above suggested that the entertainment allow ance to the Resident-General should be fixed at £240 instead of $2,400. I am further prepared to approve the entertainment allowances of the Residents being fixed in sterling, viz., at £120 instead of $1,200.

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As regards the Public Works Department see no objection to the Executive Engineers being divided into three grades as you propose, but I do not think that it would be sufficient that the Assistant Engineers should receive £360 without any increments. You will have learned from the agreements of Assistant Engineers recently appointed, that they have been promised triennial increments of £40 up to £480, and I do not think that efficient engineers can be sent out from this country if these terms are materially altered. It will therefore be necessary to raise the pro- posed salaries for the 3rd grade engineers to, say, £480 rising to £540 by triennial increments of £30.

I have, &c.,

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I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

FEDERATED MALAY STATES.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN to HIGH COMMISSIONER SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM.

[Answered by No. 122.]

(No. 329.)

Downing Street, October 24, 1902.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 329, of the 4th September last, † forwarding with observations copies of the Scheme of Sterling Salaries for the Federated Malay States.

2. In view of your strong expression of opinion, and of the importance of the post, I agree to the emoluments of the Resident General being fixed at £2,500 a year, the salary being £2,260 and the Entertainment Allowance £240. I would suggest, how- ever, that it might be well if, when the increase in the sterling salary of this appoint- ment is notified to the Service, an announcement were made to the effect that it is not intended that the Resident General and the Residents shall always be selected from the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States.

3. I accept your view as to the six "additional appointments"; but it should be laid down that if a passed cadet serves in one of these posts for three years, his salary will then be raised to £350 a year, in accordance with the rates promised to passed cadets remaining three years without a substantive appointment.

4. I agree that it is not necessary to increase the pay of the Medical Officer to the Malay States Guides.

SIR,

No. 107.

STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN to GOVERNOR SIR F. A. SWETTENHAM. (No. 320.)

Downing Street, October 24, 1902.

I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No. 382, of the 5th ultimo,* forwarding copies of correspondence concerning the Scheme of Sterl- ing Salaries for the Straits Settlements as laid before the Legislative Council.

2. I have addressed you in my Native States despatch, No. 329, of the 24th inst.,t on the subject of paragraphs 3 and 7 of the Memorandum prefixed to the print of the Sterling Scheme for the Federated Malay States, enclosed in your despatch, No. 329, of the 4th ultimo. What I have said in reference to those paragraphs of course applies to Appendix A to the enclosure to your despatch under acknowledgment.*

3. I telegraphed to you on the 18th inst., suggesting the addition to my telegram of the 23rd of July the words " or to posts of the same salary." I was led to make this suggestion by enquiries received from various officers of the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, who pointed out that it was more or less frequent for officers in the Civil Service to be transferred from one post to another on the same salary. Subject to any observations that you might wish to make, I did not think that an officer's position in regard to increments should be prejudiced by his having been moved in this way. I have since received your telegram of the 20th inst., in- forming me that you agree, and that you have already recommended the rule.

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5. I approve the proposals made in paragraphs 8 and 9 of your despatch. have addressed you in my despatch, No. 301, of the 6th instant, as to the salary of the boiler-maker in the Railway Department.

6. I understand paragraph 3 of the memorandum prefixed to the printed en- closure in your despatch to mean that where two officers have been holding posts on the same dollar salary, one of which is now put into a higher class, the officer holding that post will, if junior to the other officer, not be allowed to come on to the sterling scheme in that post, if his senior officer cannot at the same time be provided with an appointment in the higher class. If this be your intention, I approve it; and it seems to me that no officer affected by this decision will have any reasonable ground of com- plaint. Otherwise, of course, no restriction will be placed on an officer's choice, by reason of the decision of a senior officer, to come on the scheme or remain outside.

7. Paragraph 7 of the memorandum will also require revision, in view of the decision to fix the rate of exchange for the payment of sterling salaries monthly instead of yearly.

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† No. 92.

Not printed.

No. 108.

I have, &c.,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

FEDERATED MALAY STATES.

COLONIAL OFFICE to MR. A. E. YOUNG.

Downing Street, October 28, 1902.

WITH reference to your letter of the 31st July last,** I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you that it has been decided that you shall be placed in charge of the Revenue Survey of the Federated Malay States as well as the Trigono- metrical Survey.

The sterling salary of the post will be at the rate of £720 a year, rising to £840 by triennial increments of £60. If, however, you decide not to accept the ster- ling terms, the dollar salary of the post will be fixed at $4,800 a year. You will, of course, in that case receive exchange compensation on the whole of your dollar salary.

3. You will be given the title of Director of Surveys.

I am, &c.,

R. L. ANTROBUS.

No. 97.

↑ No. 106.

‡ No. 92. § No. 103.

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No. 104.

* No. 79.

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