them to the Right donourable the :ecretary of State for the Colonies. I do
this wot so much
obracing
DONAL
for
the sake of
additional remune
ration as to remove a
misapprehension
which cannot but be prepudicial.
wh
my
2.
states in the Colonial Service.
Sto explained in
el
former correspondence when e accepted the appointment of Surveyor General I did so under the impression that the salary of the oppositument was $5,760 per amuum
at 4/2
to the sollar. In offering me the appointment on the part of the Secretary of State, Sir Henry Buliver, the High Commissioner of Cyprus, referred to the Colonial office hist,
and
gave
me to understand that
such was the salary of
the Surveyor General, and that morcover he had
seat on the Executive and Legislative Coruncils. I need hardly say
that
}
these
!
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considerations differenced we in
accepting
the apporitmout which
otherwise was not better than hoté
at the time as cloniar
AVAJ
Colding Enquieer.
کو
The question of salary
was submitted to His Excellency the
Governor and the
and through hain to the
Secretary of State. In preparing the draft Restimates for 1890 the salary
of the Surveyor Generals was proposed
as $7,992 which was arrived at by
aw
increase of salary
of salary in the ratio of 3 - 1 that being then the value of the dollar! 10 4/2. In
au interview
at Government Fouse with Governor air G. M. Des Voeux (the Acrible C. D.
Chater being also present! dis Excellency informed
cada not
d me that he
ALCO VANGMd the whole
ว
increase ished for which, with the dollar at 3/- was equivalent to a
salary of £1,200 per annum, but that
he
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