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same month by Mr. L. A. Ozorio on the usual terms of

probation, at a salary of $40 a month. Mr. Ozorio proved

unsatisfactory and on the 29th. of June, at the end of

his term of probation, I dispensed with his services. The

vacancy so created remained for a time unfilled. But on

the 1st. of August, Miss Ethel Long was appointed to the

temporary clerkship on the same terms as Mr. Ozorio.

Failing, however, to obtain an increase of salary, she

resigned on the 30th. of November,

4.

I then decided that, as it was in-

possible to obtain the services of a capable clerk at

the low rate of salary hitherto offered, and as it was

also impossible to maintain the efficiency of the Colo-

nial Secretary's Department unless such a clerk was en-

gaged without undue loss of time, the post of temporary

clerk should be given to Mr. M. E. Asger, the only suit-

able candidate attracted by an advertisement in the local

press, with a salary of $100 a month rising by annual

increments of $120 to $1,800 per annum. I have now the

honour to request your sanction for that rate of pay.

Mr. Asger was appointed on the 8th.

5.

of last December, and three days later Mr. J. M. Gutier-

rez was transferred, as I have already reported, from

his post of 2nd. clerk in the Colonial Secretary's Office

to the post of 2nd. clerk in the Magistracy. A vacancy

being thus created, I appointed Mr. F. M. Roza Remedios

on the 9th. of January, to be junior clerk in the Colo-

-nial