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any Ordinance at 4/2

been specified in terms of the dollar. The pay

of the Police Force

is credited in terms in Schedule A of

the Ordinance of 1862. In the Blue Book

for 1893, the year in which the pay of a

first Class Constable was fixed as it is

at present, the amount appears as £100-

which has been paid in $480, or at

the rate of 4.80 dollars to the pound sterling.

Since £1 must

be reckoned at 4½ to the pound so

the respectfully submit that so long Government pay

the Police Force at the rate

of using the dollar, that rate must be deemed

to be the rate prescribed by Government in a clause of Agreement dealing with the appropriation of a portion of a Constable's monthly pay; and that

this rate must

be maintained until Ord. 1 of 1864

is

repealed.

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With reference to the course of action

directed as to the Singapore Price, I have

official information as to the rate of

exchange current in the

Colony, whether

Official or banking,

but this distinction

in the circumstances of the Forces

may be pointed out. The

men enlisted

for Singapore were, I believe, the first detachment engaged in England,

whereas in Hong Kong this method

of recruiting Constables has been adopted

since 1891. Hence

any innovation on

the system of remittance in practice, as regards the majority of the European

Force, would affect with special harshness

the new men, unless the matter

Repealed