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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

C.O.

Reference :-

885

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-

COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH—NOT TO

APPENDIX I.

COLONIAL OFFICE.

I.--ESTIMATE of the AMOUNT required in the Year ending 31st March 1887 to PAY the SALARIES and EXPENSES of the DEPARTMENT of HER MAJESTY'S SECRETARY of STATE for the COLONIES; including certain EXPENSES connected with EMIGRATION.

Forty-one Thousand and Sixteen Pounds.

II. SUB-HEADS under which this VOTE will be accounted for by the COLONIAL OFFICE.

COLONIAL OFFICE.—continued.

A-SALARIES, WAGES, AND ALLOWANCES-continued.

SALARY OF OFFICE.

Numbers.

1885-86.

1890-87.

1886-87.

1885-86.

Minimum.

Annual Increment,

Maximum,

£

99

29

Brought forward

£

97,456

£

27,204

2

9

Clerks transferred from the late Emigration

Board

-

300

15

500

955

937

1

1

1886-87,

1885-86.

INCREASE.

DECREASE.

Superintendent of the Correspondence and

Legal Instruments Branch*†

350

15

500

433

418

1

1

Ditto of Registry†

350

15

450

450

449

A.-SALARIES, WAGES, AND ALLOWANCES

£

£

£

趄

36,516

36,013

503

Ditto of Printing Branch*†† -

850

15

450

421

408

B. TELEGRAMS'

4,000

8,500

500

Ditto of the Library↑

800

15

400

383

368

C.-PASSAGES, in certain caSES, OF FAMILIES OF CONVICTS, OR OF TIME-Expired men D.-INCIDENTAL EXPENSES

1

Ditto of the Copying Brancht

300

15

400

383

368

500

50

500

50

1

1

Assistant Clerk, First Class

950

15

350

336

391

19

13

£41,016

40,063

Lower Division Clerks (foar with Duty Pay

of 501.)

95

15

250

1,841

1,697

1,003

50

triennially

-

Copying

-

1,100

1,100

NON-EFFECTIVE CHARGE (Superann. Est. Class VI.)

12,464

42,737

NET INCREASE £953

1

1

First Office Keeper -

200

200

Charge for Stationery in the Year 1884-85

£1,544.

III. DETAILS of the above.

A-SALARIES, WAGES, AND ALLOWANCES :-

SALARY OF OFFICE.

Numbers.

1885-86. 1186-87.

E

1 1

-

29

Carried forward

Allowances to ditto for supervising Office

Servants, for night duty, &c.

Allowance to ditto for maintenance of 6

Servants

560

260

1

1

Second Office Keeper

150

10

900

200,

310

8

5

·

Queen's Home Service or 1st Class Mes-

sengers

195

5

150

750

750

1886-87.

1885-86.

-

Minimum.

Annual

Increment. Maximum.

Ditto

days, &c.

ditto

Attendance on Sun-

-

5s. a week

1

1

Library Messenger -

100

5

150

£

2

1

Secretary of State

B

Second Class Messengers

120

£

*

5,000

5,000

4

Third Class Messengers

80

21. 105.

100

357

I

Under Secretary of State

2,000

2,000

I

1

Extra Messenger

954. a week

****65

Ditto

ditto

1,500 1,800

1

1

Doorkeeper

-

914. a woek

1

Assistant ditto

1,200

1,500

after 5 years

Ditto

} 1,500

1,500

Dittto Attendance on Sundays, &c.

ditto

1,200

1,200

1

1

Labourer to attend Lift, &e.

Ditto

ditto

1,000

1,300

4

Principal Clerks (one of whom is Chief

Clerk

after 5 years

1,300 1,900

I

Coal Porter, Lamp Trimmer, &c.

-

5s. a week

261, a week.

20s, a week

7

Clerk)* -

First Class Clerks (including Financial

900

50

1,000

Boy Messengers

18. a day

3d. a day 98. 9d. a day

4,000

4,000

Allowance to Principal or First Class Clerk

700

25

6

6

Charwomen.

144, a week

919

800

5,600

5,588

for emigration businces

1

11

Second Class Clerks

Duster and Cleaner in Library

5r. a week

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150

150

240

240

347

28 3 2 2 3 3 8 2

55

14

219

100

100

250

20

600

4,318

4,098

Allowance for Two Resident Clerks for

attending to Telegraphic and other busi-

75

77

Total for SALARIES, &C.

36,516

36,013

noss out of office hours

+

Private

Secretary to Secretary of Statef

Second

ditto

dittot

95

50

50

300

300

100

100

100

Two Private Secretaries to Under Secretaries

of Statet -

1

Book-keepert

100

200

900

360

15

450

388

878

D.-INCIDENTAL EXPENSES:

Housekeeping Expenses and Petty Disbursements Messengers' Bills

·

150

150

360

350

Total for InⱭDENTAL EXPENSES

- $

500

100

-

-

90

50

50

14

297,456

97,904

B 4

• One of the First Class Clerks, who is a Major of Yeomanry Cavalry, receives Military Pay for the short annual period of training at the rate of 194. 3d. a day, irrespective of allowances for forage, &c.

† Those of de held by Second Class Clerks.

This Offer is Benior Amistant to the Financial Clerk.

• These rates of salary are personal to their present holders.

No vacancy in the Superintendentships is to be filled up without previous reference to the Treasury.

This Omloer draws from Indian Funds an Allowance of 881. per annum, being the uncommuted balance of a Pension of 702. per annum, granted on abolition of the "Indian Navy."

One of these Third Class Messengers has also a Pansion of is, per diem from Naval Funds.

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APPENDIX II.

ESTIMATED COLONIAL OFFICE EXPENDITURE.

1866-7. 1871–2. 1876-7.

1881-2,

1886-7.