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and if permitted to re-engage, for a second term of five years, the right to remit home half their pay at 1/2. These men have voluntarily subscribed the new conditions in consideration of their pay being increased from $40 to $45 a month. There, however, some officers and men who refused to subscribe the new conditions and who continue, such of them as are still in the force, to draw pay at the old rate of $40 a month.
It is contended by the Memorialists that in consequence of the further fall in the dollar they are now in a worse position than those who refused to subscribe the new conditions and who are consequently in receipt of only $40 a month, because these latter can remit half their pay home at 1/2. They say, "if you convert $40 the pay into Sterling, half at the rate of 1s 4½d, and half at the rate of the day, say 3/1, it...
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and
if permitted to re-engage, for a Licond term of five years, the right to remit home half
their
pay
at 1/2. These
men
-have voluntarily subscribed the
new conditions in consideration
of their pay being increased
from
were
#40 to $45 a month. There
however, some officers and men who refused to subscribe the new conditions and who continue, such of them as are still in the force, to draw pay at the old rate of $40 a
$40 a month.
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It is contended by the
Memorialiste that in consequence
of the further fall in the dollar
They
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a
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who refused to
new conditions and
who are consequently.
of only
consequently in receipt
month, because
#40 a month,
these latter can remit half-
e their pay home at 1/2. to they
sayy
" if you convert #40 the pay
into Sterling
of the Jen
year
te it
"half at the rate of 14/2, and half
#
at the rate
of
the day, say 3/1, it
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