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Enclosure 2.
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Government Marine Surveyor's Office,
Harbour Department,
26th,February, 1900.
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I have the honour to request you to
please forward to His Excellency the Governor this letter, asking to increase my salary.
I have now completed 9 years service in HongKong as Government Marine Surveyor and I would respectly wish you to kindly inform His Excellency that I have had no increase of pay during this time. The permanent salary of this office remains the same to-day as it was 18 years ago, while the revenue paid into the treasury from the Government Marine Surveyor's work
is much more now than it was in 1882.
In August 1896 I had the honour toaddress
His Excellency Sir William Robinson asking for an
improvement of my condition and my petition was forwarded
to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the
Colonies.
The Right Honourable the Secretary of State
Mr. Chamberlain in his despatch ( dated 13th. January 1897)
to Sir William Robinson said " I shall not refuse to
entertain the question of an increase of salary to the
officer in question when he has had somewhat longer serm
vices continue to give satisfaction.
The duty of the Government Marine Surveyor in
this port, as you are aware, Sir, is very responsible,
and the work extremely trying to ene'a constitution, and I
would
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