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house can require, in the prosecection of

For more

its business, more intelligence Complete integrity than is required of

Officons in the positions of allows. etles

and Madar Nor can it be said that

the

· prospect of pension adjusts difference in the rates

them

in the rates of salary paid,

for, in the first place,

is too

great to be

20

the

discrepancy

adjusted; in the

second, the larger business establishments infrequently pecision their old

here not

servants

9.

The Fourth Clerk is certainly,

underpaid.

- paid considering

the nature of the work required, and the desirability of retaining in the Department an officer

who knows it, and who is gradually.

becoming fitted for the seivor post, et calary of $50

150 a month is just enough

to

to Keep

au.

intelligent lad here till he can

get something better.

Of the other officers

in the Government service who have this

salary

...three

are

Chinese, two are were

copying clerks, one is a

warehousekeeper

at the Powder Depot, and one o

Suruckey in the Gool. Although M Edennd Carvalho has only two years servise, the duties he has to perform

are

of a kind

very different to any of those enumerated. I consider that the post is worth at least $65a month. The zevouth

clerk in the Post Office has $60.

an

An extra haud is absolute-

necessity

A

A short leave of absence

granted to Wo Madar, who had not had leave for several

several years,

wcoment

10.

is at this

throwing everything into arrear; Finally, I would propose a

trifling

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