CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10] — Page 85

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vested in the Governor by the Statute law of this Colony, of INr Mitchell-Innes to be Assistant Registrar-General, and also of Mr

Osmund to be First Clerk in the Department of the Registrar-General, in the place of Mr. Gerrard (retired on pension).

It appears that the

Colonial Department has criticised

the sala

salary

allotted to the office of

Assistant Registrar; but that the

out

Department has failed to point o to Your Lordship that that salary

wad

868

was

fixed obviously with the view

of confining the public expenditure within the Estimates already voted and

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appropriated by the Colonial Legislature, viz :- by combining the

salary of a passed Cadet ($1,800) already drawn by M. Mitchell-omes with the salary of the Registration Clerk, whose abolished (#1440); thus making

Office

has been

a

total salary of $3,2.40. I concurred with the Excentive Council (and

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* See the Memorandum by the Registrar- General of April 12. 1884, which forms Enclosure 2 in the Governor's despatch No 126 of 1884.

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