CO129-169 - Others - 1874 — Page 730

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Harbor Department.

Gunpowder Depôt.- Two additional

Chinese Sailors at 896 each

Educational Department.

Personal Allowance to Chin-Chi-Yeung,

Teacher

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of English

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Medical Department.

One additional Inspector of Nuisances

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to the size, population, and Revenue

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of the Colony, the Expenditure

on

the

Police Force is still much too great.

way,

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* 192 :

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In what

however, retrenchment

Can best be carried out must be

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$240: 00

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left to the Exxecutive, to whom the

Consideration

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the subject is earnestly

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recommended...

for

Public Works,

$600: 00

We understand that the Salary of

the "Official Trustée" is fixed by the

Governor in Council at

in Council at £50, subject,

however, to reconsideration if the duties

of the Office increase during the ensuing

Twelve months.-

We have not deemed it expedient alteration in the Estimates

to suggest any

for the Police Establishment, but while acknowledging the happy immunity

which the Colony enjoys from serious we think that having regard

crime.

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Among the Votes

of opinion, that the cemount

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we are

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proposed to be cxpended

ow

the Publis

Gardens and Plantations should be

reduced to $2,000-

the Sub-Committee

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The Members

of the

have

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confined

thair

inquiries

to the

details

as

laid

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before

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of the Extimates

the Council at its last meeting,

which, with the exceptions and