CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4] — Page 497

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At a meeting of the Members of the Committee appointed by His Excellency the Governor to consider the question of the advisability of separating the Land Office from the Registry and of making provision for the work of the Official Receiver in Bankruptcy being separated from the Land Office, it was unanimously decided by the undersigned three Members of the Committee, to make the following recommendations to the Govern- ment, namely:-

1. That the Land Office should be placed on an in- dependent footing as a separate publio department, and should be kept entirely distinct from the Registry, and that the person hitherto known as the Deputy Land Officer should in future be known as the Land Officer, and that the Registrar of the Suprase Court should in future cease to have any connection with the Land Office, and should cease to be known as the Land Officer.

2. That in view of the recent very great increase in the amount of work in the Land Office, owing to racent heavy land sales and to reclamations and also to the inclusion of the New Territories in the boundaries of the Colony, the salary of the present Deputy Land Officer be made equal to the present salary of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, namely $5,400 a year and Exchange Compensation.

3. That an Official Receiver in Bankruptcy be ap- pointed (instead of the Deputy Land Officer doing the work of Official Receiver as has heretofore been the case) with the proviso that such Official Receiver shall devote his whole time to the service of the Gaveraceat, and shall undertake without any extra pay, any duties in connection with the Supreme Court which the Chief Justice may direct including receiverships by the ap- pointment of, or with the sanction of, the Court, his fees, commissions and remunerations for such receiverships being baid into the Treasury.

4. That such Official Receiver in Bankruptcy be paid a salary of $3,000 a year and Exchange Compensation rising by triennial increments of $250 a year to a maximum of $4,000 a year and Exchange Compensation.

19th. Marob, 1901,

(Sa..) B. E. Pollock,

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O. VOI. Nassar,

Acting Treasurer,