CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857 — Page 205

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

Colormal Secretary

Offices

wvere

and Auditor General's consolidated, and the

salary fixed at $ 100

per

aumur,

instead of having two séparate Affices costing together £f 2800

Sir J. Davis ( 8 June 46 per per ammun repreemiting that the Auditor only audited the Colonial accounts, "the " Consular being fully cheaked and " audited in the Departinent of " the Superintendent". Merely

opinion I would Colory, whose

as

my

observe that

revenue

مند

a i

not

about £37,000

an

more

a

than

with

European population is of foreign one of 71,36

1247 and a and then

pomemder, seans

scarcely entitled to

on

the score

can

require

of duties to

be

201

performed, a better paid Secretary and

be

functionary,

Auditor, that

one at £1200

a

year. But I suppose that the

vicios

such

one

حمة

is apt to entertain point in

England by

measured

are not to be Eastern notions. I will therefre

confine myself to the remark that I think the Salaries of Public Officers in Hong Kong

when the necessaries of

are

life

/

are

cheap _ which during

Our hostilities with Canton does

not happen to be the case _ all too high, being

liberal

ao

they

are

nearlyas

at Ceylon,

colmy where the business of the public afficers

is

more

simportant

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