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I have only held the one

held the one office of

Inspector of Schools and Head of the

Education Department, but in 1886 the

Secretary of State raised the salary

to $3000.

attached to my office to

5. I beg to draw attention to the

fact that, after serving the Government gratuitously as Director of Chinese. Studies from 1875 to 1878, I formally entered the Government Service at the request of the Governor in 1878 with

the expressed understanding, reported

lo, and acquiesced in by,

the Secretary

of State that my salary should be

equal to £ 1000 (one thousand pounds)

a year, but I admit that I have

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no right to complain of the dimination

of my salary, because Pmyself resigned the second office I held.

6. But I beg to solicit the attention of the Government further to the following considerations : —

(a) The work of my office has been steadily increasing and still continues to increase from year to year. In the course of the year 1878, Thad to inspect 47

Schools and to examine individuat

vidually

3152 children, but these numbers have.

risen in the year 1889 to 106 Schools

and 7659 children; and in addition

to the work of inspection and examiAR, tion, I have had continuous office

work