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Under Article 615 of the Pay Warrant, the Pay of all Gun Lascars is laid down in Rupees.

This works without a hitch as the body of Gun Lascars at Ceylon is concerned.

For that body, which passed some years ago from the payment of the Local Government into the payment of the Imperial Government, is raised in Ceylon, where a Rupee coinage is current, and is paid in such currency.

The men therefore receive the number of Rupees laid down in the Regulations, and no question of exchange arises.

But the Warrant does not work satisfactorily in its application to the body of Gun Lascars at Hong Kong, who have always been in Imperial payment, and are raised in various parts of the East.

For though the regulations lay down the pay of the men in Rupees, not Dollars; the latter being the coinage current at the station, it is not practicable to effect a settlement by simply paying to the men the number of Rupees to which they are entitled. Some means have to be adopted for exchanging the Rupees of the Regulations into the Dollars of the local currency.

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Under Article 615 of the Pay Warrant, the Pay of all Gun Lascars is laid down in Rupees. This works without a hitch as the body of Gun Lascars at Ceylon is concerned. For that body, which passed some years ago from the payment of the Local Government into the payment of the Imperial Government, is raised in Ceylon, where a Rupee coinage is current, and is paid in such currency. The men therefore receive the number of Rupees laid down in the Regulations, and no question of exchange arises. But the Warrant does not work satisfactorily in its application to the body of Gun Lascars at Hong Kong, who have always been in Imperial payment, and are raised in various parts of the East. For though the regulations lay down the pay of the men in Rupees, not Dollars; the latter being the coinage current at the station, it is not practicable to effect a settlement by simply paying to the men the number of Rupees to which they are entitled. Some means have to be adopted for exchanging the Rupees of the Regulations into the Dollars of the local currency.
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Under Article 615 of the Pay Warrant, the Pay of all Gun Lascars is laid down in Rupees.

00

for

This works without a hitch

as the body of Sun

Lascars at Ceylon

at Ceylon is concerned.

For that body, which passed some

years ago from the payment of

the

Local Government into the payment

91

the Imperial Sovernment,

raised in

is

Ceylon, where a Rupee

Cornage is current, and is paid in

such

currency

The men

therefore

receive the number of Rupees

laid down in

the Regulations,

and no question of exchange arises,

But

162

But the Warrant does not work

40

satisfactinly in its application

to the body of Sun Laxars at Hong Kong, who have always ben

in

Imperial payment, and are raised in varions parts

of

the last.

For though the regulations lay down

the pay of

de

men in

Dollars; not Rupees,

Rupees, you

are

the

20

coinage current at the station, that it is not practicable to effect

a settlement by simply paying to

the

men

the number of Rupees

to which they

are

entitled. Some

means have to be adopted for

exchanging the Rupees of the Regulations into the Dollars

of

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