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Mr.B.W.Grey

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clusive his present conveyance allowance of $24 per mensen

Travelling allowance ex-

$26 per mensem

Mr. A. Watson

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Travelling allowance

$40 per mensem

Mr.A.3. Wong

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Salary $45 and travelling

$70 per mensem

allowance $25

or a total of $136 per mensem, and the Legislative Council will

be asked at its next meeting to vote a sum of $544 to cover

that expenditure during the next 4 months.

That is the minimum period of time within which the Deputy Land Officer, under whose direction the party will work, estimates that the work can be done.

You will observe by the above figures that no provision has been made for any extra emolument to Messrs. Grey and Watson for their work on the survey, which will be very arduous, and as they are both married officers with households to maintain in Hong-Kong, their constant absence on the main- land in the discharge of their new duties will entail upon them very considerable expense,

In view of the desirability of pushing on this survey for Rent Roll purposes as rapidly as possible, it has been suggested to pay these officers an honorarium each on the completion of their work rather than a fixed increase to their salaries, and I would ask your sanction to calculate these ho- noraria at the rate of $50 a month for each officer if the

work is completed before the end of the year.

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