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aw Assessor

of $720 a year extra. Now an having profesional qualifications bees been appointed to do this work. It is

a personal

a,

now proposed to give him a

allowance of $240 a year making

his emoluments $1,200 a

2 year

in all.

The persons drawing the same scale

of pay

in other Repartiuculs of the service are shown in the Schedule B

annexed. It will be seen that with the

r

exception of all - Madar the others liave

all had substantial promotion.

He has

within the last five years. had wone since 1877 and is really + less than he did formerly -

receiving when he was

Municipal Valuatori

One difficulty

unest however.

be noticed which presents itself in the

Cotse

: of att Alves. It is that if her.

receives

B

160

receives the proposed increase bringing

his salary up to $2, 160 he will be drawing score than the salary of the

Office of 12th Clerk, which is $1,920. Mr.

Carvalho who now

• fills the

office n draws in addition a personal allowance.

of $ 1960 a year neaking his total emoluments #2880. A reference to

the Schedule which was sent to the

Colonial Office with my dispatch of 19th March, 1883, showing

a

clavcification of the Civil Service

of m Wongkong, will illustrate the positions of the different Officers referred to, alth "Carvalho, the present first clerk in the Treasury, is in class II in that Schedule. He is actually drawing. more than the salary attacked to

class I. Mr. Alves is in class IV, aud

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