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he was prepared to

wneud

that I sámla recover the equivalent

of

21000

1,0 0 0 or 86, 660 from Colonial

funds and £200 from the Grays

recamation finna. Mt Chater as

rehre Ser

tative

of

was I understand

the Praya

Kotholders

ceable to this

agreeable

recon unendation, the cost of the Praya Staff being chargeable to the Praya fund by Section 3 of Ardinance 16 of 1889.

4.

Excellency for

While thanking His his proposal

respectfully intimated that I thought

it better for my

own sake, but

especially in the winterest of

future Surveyors General, that the

enohuments.

of

the

office should be fixed without reference to the Praya

Works or other ten

temporary

consider-

ation, and that the question of

remuneration in connection with

the Praya Work should be considered

apart

hasi

its

I may say £200 per

134

merits. Incidentally

that an honorarium of

ALUMACAULA

as compensation.

for the duties devolving

on the

Surveyor General in connection with

the Grays

Works struck me (as o

thuise it would strike

as

any

are

having

می کو

practical experience of such matters) being quite disproportionate to the nature and extent of the duties and the responsibility attaching there. I was further influenced Fry the consideration that as the ___ proposal to increase the salaries of officials in 1875 by 35 her cent was. then under consideration, the vermanent salary of the Surveyor General would be less under Sir C. #. Des Voeuss proposal than it word a be if it

common with other

salaries, increased 35 for cent.

were inv

In support of this

that in 1878 the

view I show a sory

salary