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ONG KONG

No 20198

(Subject.)

DESPAT345

20158

RECZ

CK

Rec2 25 JUN 00

Apply of womb Arthur

for permissia & draw leave salary then siar

at 4/2 submits with recommendation that request be granted

Mr Johnson

(Minutes.)

Mr Arthur was appointed 1st Clark to the Magistincy in 1887 with Free Quarters, or, (if Quarters shouldn

subsequently be unavailable), an allowanc

of $3604 year instead. His Salary

was $1920 a year-

159869.90

/

and to

In paray of

Lord Knutsford's Despatch on 157889 increasing Salaries in Hongkong, it was laid down that "Such Officers

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as now recave no câcrease or an increase

less than 14p.e. to their present emoluments with

leave

continue to be entitled to the 4/2 rate of Exchange for Salaries & Murious, so long as they hold their present appointinenti on the same Salarias"

17884/19

By para: 2 of Despatch on 178841 Mr Arthur's recried Salary

• fixed at $1920 + 35 per cent or #2592, less the

his Quarters ie. #360;

uns

value

of

The Salay was therefre $2232 a year, and though

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