CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879 — Page 359

Department to the Post Office of Hong Kong towards the expense of the Agencies in China and Japan.

On a revision of the Agensier

arrangement

in 1867 an

Quade

1867. by which, in considerations of thier superintendence being undertaken by the Eovernment of Hong Kong the Imperial Post Office would contributes towards the expense of their maintenance the sum of £ 1370 a year, being the amount of the several Salaries then paid to the Agents including £100 for the expenser of occasional dospection and £100 additional allowance to the Postmaster General

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of Stong kong for his increased trouble and responsibility in connexion wither the Agencie

of

Of the above sum £1370, five hundred pounds represented the Salary of the Agent at Yokohama and sixty pounds the Salary of the Agent-at Nagasaki, and as these two Officer will cease to exist after the 31st of December next the Postmaster Sseneral proposes to reduce £560

the amount

a year the

by

of

the annual contribution paid by this Department, ther leaving £810 to be contributed by the denperial Foot-Office,

in

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