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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