hundred pounds per of
awwur
appointment it was
his app
at the time
expected that there would be a considerable amount of emolumen the Ecclesiastical Surisdiction of
arising from
the Court but that there emoluments only
amounted to the sum
of Forty six pounds
and seven pence
in the year
three shillings 18th and to Seventy nine pounds six shilling
and six pence halfpenny in the
Eshat
your
Petitioner
funds
year
1865-
the above Salary
and emolumento utterly insufficient for his
support owing
to the high prices prevalent
in the Colony for all articles of subsistence especially the heavy rent charger
it impossible fo
and more
for
houses
rendermy
him
to procure a house fitted for the accomme of his family for a les sum then Oue hum
Dollars a mouth or wo hundred and
pounds Sterling a year- perands
built one
at an
fifty
he has therefore
expence of Ilvo thousan
pounds the interest of which at twelve
per Cent (the current rate in the Colony)
forty pounds per
is Two hundred and
ammun
Ishat
your
55
Petitioner is prevented
by the duties of his Office from
his means
If
profession. That of kriowing
livliehood
your
ly
encreasing
the exercise of his
Petitioner has
the amount of Salary
no means
attached to the
Office of Eregistrar in other British Colonies, but he is informed that the registrar of Singapore
enjoys a Salury of £1500
a
a year
besides the
Commision on Intestate Estates which amounts
to
very
considerable sum
Under these circumstances.
your
Betitioner
humbly prays your Lordship to take his case nito your favorable consideration.
and
grant him such an encrease
your
Salary
fit.
as to
And your
of
Lordship shall seem
Will ever
Petitioner as in duty bois
pray Spot Fundas lay
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