CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860 — Page 277

have been paid into the Exchequer,

your Lordships request to be furnished

and.

with an account of the sums so paid-

Upon which, we have the honor to state that the Superannuation contributions collected at Hong Kong for the periods referred to, and paid into the Treasury Chast for remittance to England, were as follows;

For the

£ 686 x 11. I 2 year 185/1/5

673+18.6

1855/6

1856/7

-

From 1. April to 30 June 1857-

687.16.0

150·10-ye

£ 2198-942

And this amount was subsequently paid into the Exchequer. No deductions

appear to have been made from half- salaries paid by the Agent General.

In the year 1854/5 the salaries of four Officers, and in 1855/6 the salaries of three Officers, were borne on the Parliamentary Grant; but as the accounts do not

1 give particulars of the sums collected, there are no means of

means of distinguishing, in respect of the years 1854/5 and 1855/6 between contribuctions from salaries paid out of Colonial Revenue, and those paid out.

the Parliamentary Grant.

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As regards the contribution for the year 1856/7 and the quarter to 30. Jund,

as there was no

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1857,

grant for salaries for those periods, the whole of the

contributions must have been made from salaries paid out of Colonial Revenue,

The dates and particulars of the payments into the Treasury Chest on account of Superannuation contributions, are as follow ;

being a portion of the

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19. July 1854 £130-12 = 3 sum of £445 +14 +44

25. Nour 1854

5. Deer

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which included contributions in

208.2 to respect of previous years.

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106n32

28. March. 1855 184.1a4f 14. Feb 1856 505-18-3

24. Decr

708.19.4

14. Augt 1857 354 +12.4 £2198.912

The enclosures

True copy

$

are herewith returned We have &

(Signed) Edw? Promilly

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) Henry

Henry Arbuthnot

(-) M.. Maberly

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