imposed upon me -
that the entire living is enormously augmented in the Colony in consequence of its prosperity, - that the Government house (first refused by me) was built for functional use, whose Salary was understood to be £8,000 a year; that not only the official apartments of that large Building are furnished at the public expense, while my predecessor (and myself during the first 18 months of my residence in the Colony) occupied a completely furnished house at a cost to the Colony of £600 a year.
- a charge upon the Colonial revenues which has now ceased to exist. And I beg to add as an additional grievance that the Governor's revenue paid out of the Colonial fund was liable to no deduction - while from mine, being a Treasury Grant, a deduction is made of £480 per annum, which leaves my real salary scarcely above £3500. And I may add that no differentials to add (though the Prevailing may more especially concern the Foreign than the Colonial Department) that Diplomatic Duties have been enormously increased by the intense Trade and the disordered condition of China, by the opening of large commercial...
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Previation may
may
more esiecially
concern the Foreign than the Colonial Department) that Diplomatic Duties have been enormously increased by the
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and the disordered condition of China, by the opening of large commercial
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