CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881 — Page 545

FAL

the

one

day, for he will receive

(8th - 50 +31) months

1.6.

30

8 month & 1 day (nearly) half pay.

This same mistake must always occur when full pay leave begins in the middle of a 30-day month and ends in a 31-day month, if the Agents abide by their rule of paying up to the last day of the month; which rule, of course, has many conveniences, but seems to defraud the Officer in these cases.

We may (1) authorize Agents so to adjust their payments in these instances that a man should really get his whole pay for four months (for example), taking care that he does not at the same time receive half pay for longer than the just period.

i.e. In this case, instruct them to subtract from the full pay for August only so much as was given for the 30th of April (one day), and to give for half pay in August only so much as will be subtracted from the half pay in April 1882, and add that the same principle should be followed in all like cases?

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(2) Or shall we answer that we cannot interfere in this, but D. Wharry must seek to recover the amount from the Colonial Authorities when he returns, as the Crown Agents have only followed the Certificate as per their normal practices of paying up to the last of each month, & reckoning a month from a particular day of any month to the day before the same day of the next month?

SMI. 68ep.

I should adopt the latter alternative;

We agents cannot have been intentionally causing trouble while processing half pay claims without being aware of the controversy it provokes, and it is not in their interest; however, they should be made aware of the issue because of Mr. Wharry's case.

When plans concerning the mistake in the calculations were sent to the Crown Agents, ...