if the mcrease of 70% and the Fright to retain my privilege
Premittance had been "deemed to put me in a better position than other members of the service, such increase would not have been granted or such right be allowed to remain 5. My contention is that the increase granted a few years Кесогени past, applied for in consequence inter alix of the drop in exchange, rise in rents, to te tc. was understood to put all the members of the service on nearly the same level as it was possible is put them. 6. Arsinnis Phen that by the first reledjustment of salaries an officer who received the 35%, or less, increase was, to all intents and purposes, placed on
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who received an addition of about 70% and retained my then existing prurleyes, nothing
has occurred since beconferring of that increase to alter the relative positions: Pre dollar has steadily declined and this decline has of necessity afected all parties alike.
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7. If herefore the officers wis received the increase already referred to are now entitled further compensation under the latest scheme, I submit that my clames to participate in that compensation are as valid as theirs, 8. My position then is as follows When Jenterrd the service in February 1875 (now over twenty years ago ) I was entitled
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