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claw Government with reference to the Slovener's Pension Act, that is,

one in which the salary of the - Toveruser is £5,000 stesting for annum.

5. Though the salary of the Governor of Hongkong is fixed- £5000 by the Civil List Ordinance

1860, and though by

at

another

J

2

(Indrisance which fixes 4/2 eterting

A o

of

the equivalent of the dollar, the

actual salary

do

paid, $24,000,

appear to represent £5,000 sterling,

I cannot avoid the fear that at the tive when the question of my

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pension comes up for consideration, Her Majesty's Treasury may hold

that with

reference

to a

payment

from the Imperial Treasury,

law canuot

qualify

a distint

a

local

-provision of an Imperial 4t, so as

of money

to attach to a

a Quin

-value which it dow not possess:

and if this fear should prove to be justified I shall there in addition

immediate low suffer a

tox

the

67 heavy

reduction.

of £2.50 per

my pension .

6. There

still another

aspect

in