CO129-242 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1889 [8-12] — Page 664

of Civil Officers in the Colony in view of the diminished value of the dollar, I have the honour

to enclose for Your Lordship's information a copy of report made

by

a

the

Enclosures 13th Decembe 1889.

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Copies)

Committee consisting, the Chairman excepted, of- the unofficial members of the Legislative Council, to which Committee I referred the consideration of the question.

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The Chairman was

in the first instance the late Colonial obcretary, Mr Stewart, and at his death,

a draft report, unsigned,

was

found in his handwriting, from which it

would

that the

appear -Committee had originally decided unanimously that the increased cost of living

and the diminished value

of the dollar in remittance to England, justified

an

increase