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SIR,

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Enclosure in No. 65.

3, Linden Grove, Dewsbury Road, Leeds, June 5, 1902.

I HAVE the honour, with profound submission, to appeal to you on the deci- sion given to my application for Exchange Compensation Allowance on my full Salary by the Government of the Federated Malay States, which I venture to believe is not strictly in accordance with your despatch, dated 2nd August, 1901, on the subject of "Increase of Salaries, Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States," paragraph 9.

I have been receiving Exchange Compensation Allowance on half my salary since June, 1897.

I would further beg to state that officers on agreement subordinate to myself in my own department have been granted this concession in accordance with the ruling contained in circular, No. 12, attached, thus it appears that owing to a clerical error caused by different officials drawing up the wording of agreements some are to be gainers and others, as myself, the losers to the extent of 25 per cent, of total salary, and I cannot but come to the conclusion that all Agreement Officers were to be given the same advantages, providing they drew compensation on half their salary as stated in your despatch.

Your despatch is quite clear and explicit, and I would venture to say that the Federated Malay States Government's interpretation of it with respect to Agree- ment Officers was never contemplated and it was never intended either that locally- engaged men with very short service should receive such an advantage over one who has served the Government for 11 years on the 12th instant, with, I trust, satis- factory service.

All locally-engaged men who receive Exchange Compensation Allowance do so on their full salary, and I consider that I, an Officer covenanted from England, am more entitled to it than they are.

I would point out, in contrast with the ruling in question, that the Federated Malay States Government Order, No. 51, was altered since I last re-endorsed my Agreement, yet Government have only granted me half pay leave in accordance with it, no full-pay leave whatever, thus proving that if one order issued since my Agree- ment was made can be made operative so must the other relative to Exchange Com- pensation Allowance on full salary be operative also in my case.

I shall be most grateful if you will use your good office in obtaining for me what. I believe, under your orders and my Agreement I am entitled to, viz., Exchange Com- pensation Allowance on my full salary.

Attached is my application to the Federated Malay States Government, and their reply; also extract from letter by the Resident-General, and circular, No. 12; also extract from my Agreement with reference to salary and Exchange Compensa-

tion Allowance.

To the Right Honourable

I have, &c..

C. WILSON, Locomotive Foreman, Selangor.

The Secretary of State for the Colonies.

(A.)

FEDERATED Malay States RAILWAYS.

Office of the Resident Engineer for Railways,

K. Lumpur, Selangor, September 18, 1901.

The following extract from letter by the Resident-General is circulated for the information of Heads of Departments and their subordinates who are entitled to compensation allowance.

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N. V. VISVALINGAM, Resident Engineer for Railways.

I drew full pay leave in England in 1897 which should constitute a precedent in my case.-C.W.

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I have much pleasure in forwarding to you the accompanying extract from a letter which I have received from His Excellency the High Commissioner, dated at Penang, 25th August, current, conveying the information that the Secretary of State on the representations made by His Excellency has decided to grant to all those in receipt of compensation allowances on Salary or personal allowance only, double compensation from the 1st January last,

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2. His Excellency rightly describes this as a generous concession," and I am confident that it will be received by the Federated Malay States Officers as a satis- factory recognition of the services they have rendered to the States and recognition to them in the loyal and zealous performance of their duties, and with a full sense of their indebtedness to His Excellency who has hereby furnished an additional proof of his continued and judicious interest in all that pertains to the welfare of the States and of their Officers.

(748/1902.)

(B.) Circular/1902. No. 12.

Exchange Compensation Allowance to Officers serving under Agreement. It has been decided that the only agreements that shall be deemed to entitle the Officers serving thereunder to receive Exchange Compensation Allowance on their full salaries are those in which the Government has undertaken to pay to the signatory Exchange Compensation Allowance computed "in accordance with the rules for the time being," or " from time to time in force," governing the payment of such allowance to officers in the Government service.

Heads of Departments are required to exercise great care, in drawing up new agreements, or in renewing old ones, to see that an advantage which was not con- templated by either party to the agreement is not given or continued.

Office of the Secretary to the Resident,

Kuala Lumpur,

March 21, 1902.

SIR,

(C.)

J. R. O. ALDWORTH,

Acting Secretary to the Resident.

Locomotive Department, Kuala Lumpur, April 1, 1902.

I HAVE the honour to apply for Double Exchange Compensation Allowance as I have been drawing Single Compensation since 1897, and which I consider I am entitled to under the terms of my Agreement and according to the extract from the High Commissioner's letter, dated Penang, 25th August, 1901, conveying the in- formation that the Secretary of State, on the representation of His Excellency, had decided to grant all those in receipt of Compensation on salary or personal allowance double compensation from 1st January, 1901.

The terms of my Agreement are exactly identical with those on which local men are engaged, and who have received double compensation.

My Agreement is clear that I am to receive Compensation on my salary, and contains no stipulations as to what that Compensation is to be, and I would under- stand it to mean whatever Compensation is sanctioned, and I consider it clearly entitles me to this double Compensation.

All the Officers who have received double Compensation in this department are junior to me in the Service.

I joined the Service in 1891, when the dollar was 3s. 4d., and have therefore passed through all its depreciations since then.

I would venture to say that it was never intended that my Agreement should debar me from this "generous concession," which is equal to a 25 per cent. increase of salary, and that locally engaged men should be given a preference, even to the extent of their drawing a higher salary, although junior in the Service.

I therefore beg to ask that Government will give my application their most favourable consideration, for I cannot but see that I have the same claim to double Compensation as locally-engaged men.

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