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ENCLOSURE

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Minute by the Acting Colonial Secretary.

Your Excellency.

The salary of the 2nd. Clerk of the Court when that position was held by Mr. Xavier was $100 a month; on Mr. Castro's promotion to that office, he continued to receive the

same salary,

The salary proposed by the Retrenchment Commit- tee was $1000 a year or $83.33 a month. The salary fixed by

the Retrenchment Committee was apparently not considered at

the time. I confess that I don't agree with the Retrenchment Committee and think that $100 a month for a good clerk such

as the present incumbent is, is not too much.

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For salaries of the 4th. and 5th. Clerks in the

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Treasury, the Retrenchment Committee advised $720 rising to $1,000 and $600 rising to $720 respectively.

Mr. Tsang Kit Fan who was recently made 4th.

Clerk in lieu of being 5th. Clerk was at the time of his pro-

motion drawing $780 a year or $65 a month. On promotion he drew

a fixed salary of $70 a month or $840 a year. It is clear that

the proposal of the Retrenchment Committee could not be car-

ried out in his case, and that the present arrangement in his

case is more economical than that proposed by the Retrench-

ment Committee.

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