General's Office, Mr. da Silva and Mr Place A.M
2. Me da Silva joined the Magistracy in 1874 as temporary Clerk on a salary of $35 per mensem, but shortly afterwards anticipating a vacancy on the permanent Staff of the Post Office consequent upon the retirement of Mr Simpson from that Department, he obtained a temporary Clerkship in the Post Office without pay. Subsequently, upon Mr. Simpson's departure, a salary of £25 a month or £62.10 per annum was allotted to him.
3. This £25 was in June last year increased to £35, as Mr. Silva was in consequence of his friends with whom he had hitherto resided leaving the Colony, thrown upon his own unaided resources, and Your Lordship will easily believe that even a Portuguese cannot live on so small a rate of pay in this Colony.
4. Neither of these rates of pay, however, were ever intended to be more than purely provisional and were only intended to last as long as Mr. Silva, who is a young man, was undergoing...
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General's Office, Mr. da Silva and
Mr Place
A.M
2. Me da Silva joined the Magistracy in 1874 as temporary
salary of $35 per mensem, but shortly afterwards
Clerk on a
in the
anticipating a vacancy permanent Staff of the Post Office consequent upon the retirement of Mr Simpson from that- Department, he obtained a temporary Clerkship in the. Post Office without
pay. subsequently upon IW. Simpson's departure a salary of #25 a month or £62.10 per
was
allotted to him.
and
annum.
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3.
This #25 was in
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3
June last
year increased to #35, as Mr. Silva
iw
-consequence of his friends
with whom he had hitherto
was
resided leaving the bolony. thrown upon his own unaided resources, and Your Lordship_ will easily believe that even a Portuguese.
a rate of pay month in this Colony.
Somall cannot live on so
4.
as $95 a
Neither of these rates of
pay however were ever intended " to be more than purely provisional
and
were
long a young
-only intended to last as Mr. Silva who is
• quite
man was
undergoing
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