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from the Crown Solicitor of so ~ unhealthy and far distant a Colony as Hongkong and that had
Permit me
the Office been filled by the appointment of a gentlemane at home his travelling expenses here would have cool the Government as much as his first half year's salary, an entlay which has been spared in my
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(Signed) Edmund Sharp Cram Solicitor
(Copy)
Opinion of the Attorney General .
I am of opinion that the
salary of the Crown Solicitor. be increased to 2500 per
Fought to
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The busines of that office has mor than doubled since the presen
the present solary
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fixed, and it is most important that is should be filled by a gentleman
anding in the
of experience and standing
profesion. I may
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mention that brown
tn arrear were
formerly
levied by Distress and the brown
Solicitor used to derive
a
considerable
profit by this harsh mode of re
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