CO129-247 - Acting Governor Fleming Governor Des Voeus - 1890 [10-12] — Page 405

into the Treasury,

and the disposal

of all sums (other than pay) forfeited for breach of discipline.

(Signed) R.E. I Ackroyd,

Acting Attorney General.

DESPATCH

Date. 1890

<.. 4381

15th previous Paper.

Hong Kong

No. 123

(Subject.)

403

Received 1123

Salaries of Public Officers

JAN 31

Explains changes made

Jo 724 April

etc. further

subsequent Paper

pg 4

(James sorry

David Hay

(Minutes.) M. Meade

I could not find time to

dealing first with the special matters mentioned in your despatch

par 4

17714

See minutes & despatch? I can see

no decision in par. 4 of our despatch

case 1

4

-

why the

17714

should be reconsidered, & I should therefore

that the Registrar General's salary must be fixed at $600?

[This is not the first time that the Hongkong people have sought to

lower the status

of the Registrar General

merely because he happens to be

also Registrar of Supreme Court]

When 1598/89.1

nothing was minuted there was

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