CO129-248 - Public Offices & Others - 1890 — Page 597

might,

sue this

mmending

to re

way the Treasury

to make such an addition

to the Imperial subsidy

ap

will admit of

the

the monthly salaries of the Agents at Cauton, Swator, Amay

and Foochow being raised to sitty those of the Agents attlingpo and Stankow to Minty five

dollars each, and

dollara rach.

An examination of the question, however, shewp

that no.

addition to the

dimperial subsidy is needed.

ent

to place the governmen

of Hongkong

in a position

to fix the salaries of the

cuts at the

respective agents rates propored. The Imperial

subsidy

493

£100

subeedy, after deducting paid in London to the order of Mr. Lister the Colonial Postmaster General, is £410- a year, a sum which formerly represented 3408 dollars at the rate of 1/2 to the dollar, but which now, at the re-

sa

ގ

d.

duced rate of £ 3/2 to the

dollar, ripresento 4484

This is more than

dollare

isn

the

700 dollaro in excess of the sum required to pay each of the agents monthly salary now pro- posed by the Governor.

while, therefore, the fall in exchange which hap reduced the Agents' salaries since they were fixed in 1868 appears to afford.

reasonable

onable ground for increasing

those

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