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to your recommendation that

the rules in force in the Consular service should be adopted

for the Hongkong service Herally

4 It i

very

desirable that

there should be uniform Resu- -lations in euch matters Kroughout- the Colonial Service, & the present Regulations, under which an section Officer holding an acting appointment is entitled to halt the pay of that office, +

no Officer

is entitled to vacatio

de

leave a full pay anders sectorsbacking

Jervision

can be made for t

with out cost to the Treasury

performance of his duties, are

found twork Latifactorily

in other Crown Colonies.

5

In the present case

Jas not disposed to concur

you in the opinion that

the salaries which an attacked

to the Offices of Coronent

See

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Sheriff should be trea??? differently to other public Salaries, although in the exec of the pay attached to the Superintendency of the Five Brigade my predecessor acquiessed in regarding that- as an allowance for work done; da, the gentlemen you have appointed to act in there Offices both hold other appointments in

He public service, Shee for giving them teft fall Labary of their acting appointments * proporre unless there

the

Ao reaso

Are

الوحيد

any special objective which an-

hot aware of to a low Mr. Lister the halfsalony of thell his Offices,

6 for the present the Agents have been intructed

duping his vacation leave to pay him, fall salary at

the rate of $800

a year,

but Shave to remark that-

it the emoluments acto:

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to the Offices of Cormert

Theriff

are

the treated s

allowances for work done,

an Officer leaving the Colony

In leave of absence would not- be entitles to any part-of-

them.