CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6] — Page 13

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te Major Seuusi coumanding of

sencial for

سکار

house is movided here

whom house

a

riccives nearly

£4.000 a

and

year,

until some recent reductions in the China allowances, did-

¡receive at the rate of nearly

£5,500 per annum - Upon nove of there officers is there is large

an expenditure entailed by their rosition as there is

there is upon

the Governor

this

and Commander-in-Chief of Colony. I may mention further

that the

pay

and allowances of the

Chief Commissariat

Off

officer,

Colonel Commanding the Garrien,

the

| Chief Commissariat Officer ₤1926.

Colonel Commanding Farrison ₤1880. Principal Medical Office

and the Principal Medical Primaful Mitial offen £1000. Officer, each amount to nearly two thirds of the Salary of the Governor.

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17.

The

nearest British Settlement

to this is Singapore which is a dependency

of the Indian Government. The boveno is not Commander-in-Chief;- the

Colony has not an

inderendent

Legislature; and the cost of living is

-

yet

the Governor

I

far less than it is here receives in pay and allowances

am informed, upward of £4,200 per

annum.

18.

I have omitted, I observe, to mention that a residence is provided this was

here for the bovernon; but as this planned when the Salary was £6,000,

and the

expenses of living not two thirds

of what they

are at present, it tends rather to add to the embarrassments

of the position,

as it entails u

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