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(He has been paid £1-10-0 a month in exces

It was subsequently decided that the

general increases of salary granted

in Hong Kong from 1st January lest

were to be subject to the condition

that the rate for arewing leave sa-

lery in this country was to be low-

ered to 4/- the dollar, and the rate

for pensions was to be lowered to

3/8 in all cases where an increase

of at least 14 per cent was greuted,

and properly speaking this rule

should apply in your case as

from

the 1st of January 1890, but by an

oversight no instruction to that ef-

fect appears to have been hitherto

given to the Crown Agents; and under

these circumstances his Lordship

will not direct that the excess pay-

ments for 1890 should be made good

by you, but the Agents have now

Kas been instructed to issue

your half salary in future at 4/-,

and also to adjust the overpayments

already made since 1st January last

by making deductions from the

next four instalments of salary pɛii

to you in this country.

I am &c

Rm

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