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Auditor General's Office,

Hongthong, 17th July, 1868.

stor some years past I have felt that the small salary viz. £500 a year afsigned to me by

by the balony, is very much out of proportion, considering the varicus and

often important duties I.

am called

on

to

perform, with the salaries paid to other Officers of this Government, but I have always

been unwilling partly perhaps from a false pride but more so, from the hope of promotion, to lay before His Excellency the Governor any application

The Comble

J. Gardiner Austin,

Colonial, Secretary.

EX.