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branch in dan Francisco, by which the Bank should pay him his salary in America

C

in sterling, and the Government

pay

the Bank here the

So that be

would licen

ens of dollore

pum o

equivalent in local currency.

The latter arrangement

3.

: appears to have been made

previous occasion (in

1885_ in the case

and it was on

of D. Wharry), the presedent

established by that ease that the present application

suade.

was

4

4.

I

am not aware,

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however,

of any authority

authority by which, salaries can be drawn out of

the Colony otherwise than through the constituted agents of the Government, and as arrangements of a private nature as described above would lead to much

inconvenience and possible abuse, I declined to accede to M Rogers' request, on the : ground that Your Lordship'é

instructions.

are that salaries

if