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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

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Swettenham; and he therefore proposes to maintain it on the scale laid down in paragraph 5 of that despatch. The item, "police uniforms $100," would probably require to be increased in proportion. The net sum on account of the island expend ture to be added to the general estunate given in paragraph 36 of Sir Frank Swetten- ham's report will therefore be not less than £1,000 a year, and probably more.

9. The item of $11,000 for quarters for the Commissioner was inserted on the understanding that a civilian Commissioner would be appointed. Quarters will, how- ever, require to be provided for the Assistant Commissioner, and, in the absence of any details as to their cost, Mr. Chamberlain presumes that the item of $11,000 (£1,100) may stand.

10. It is understood that the annual payment on account of the cable subsidy, viz., £4,000, will be borne on the Post Office Vote. Their Lordships are aware, how- ever, that arrangements are in contemplation for a weekly mail service between Wei- Hai-Wei and Chefoo, which if carried out may possibly be a charge upon the Colonial Estimates. In this connexion, I am to refer to your letter of the 24th November last,t 17299/1900, and to say that no steps have as yet been taken to give effect to the decision arrived at, and that it is quite uncertain what the cost of this new service will be; but a minimum sum of £1,000 a year should be included in the estimate on this

account.

11. I am to add that in a letter, a printed copy of which, together with a copy of the reply, is enclosed, the Lords Commissioners the Admiralty have suggested that the expenses of lighting the harbour should be charged to the Civil Administration. The initial cost of this work is estimated at £1,200, and the upkeep at about £300 a year.

12. The total expenditure for the year beginning on 1st April next, as shown by the enclosed summary, may therefore be very roughly estimated at not less than $132,500, or £13,250; on the other hand, the revenue is estimated by Sir Frank Swettenham, in paragraph 9 of his report, at £2,000 a year at first, and their Lordships will observe that this is the highest sum which could safely be anticipated.

13. I am accordingly to ask that their Lordships will approve a Grant-in-Aid of the local revenue of £11,250 being inserted in the Colonial Services Estimate for the ensuing year, on account of the expenses of the Civil Administration of Wei-Hai-Wei.

I am, &c.,

C. P. LUCAS.

1262.

Works:--

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 letter} 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.

Clerk and Interpreter

Commissioner

Assistant Commissioner

Secretary and Financial Assistant

Second Clerk and Postmaster

Chinese Writer

$15,000

5,000

1,800

600

600

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

SIR,

Office contingencies, stationery, uniforms, &c.

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, 39126/1900, 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.

PUBLIC RECORD

OFFICE

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