CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11] — Page 361

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work entailed (if I read it aright) by paragraph 27 to

"the concluding words of which I would call particular

" "attention. If my recommendation is approved, I would

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propose (a) to make the Treasury Audit a sub- branch of

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the Department as the assessing branch is at present, (b)

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to place Mr. Silva at the head of it as 1st Clerk with

律 his present salary, (c) to do away with the

anomaly which

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at present exists in the pay of the Treasury 5th. Clerk

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as compared with that of the 3rd and 4th. by making him

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2nc. in the Audit Branch at his present salary and (d) to

engage one clerk at $1080 rising to $1560, and another

at $480 rising to $780, the former to be trained by Mr.

Silva with a view to conducting the out-door work referred

to above, the latter to occupy a suberdinate position.