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dollars, and

for the maintenance

of my family and

payment of

in

the

insurance premia

I have to remit home annually

six hundred pounds

and

annually

At the present moment

pound sterling exchanges for

little

over ten dollars and

thus over six thousand of my

seven thousand dollars are

gone in exchange. My rent

alone

is

one

hundred dollars

a month, and besides this

there are all the expenses

of servants, living, and so

forth.

I have

very earnestly

to ask Your Lordship for some relief. The Unofficial members

in their remarks accompanying

their votes stated that the

hardships of depreciated silver

were

not

confined

to Civil

servants, but I have the

honour to respectfully submit that this is not the light.

way

in which this matter should

be viewed. Private individuals

have their

own methods

of

protecting their private interests,

and the State is not concerned

with them, but Civil Servants

have