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necessitate an ending Ordinance,

but without making the above

alterations difficulties would arise in the keeping of accounts

and in the calculation of the pensions paid from the fund.

All Officers in the Subordinate Establish-

(I.)

ment who may join the Goverment Service after the 31st.Decm2 -

ber, 1901, and whose salaries are paid in silver, shall, when

going on leave or pension to countries having a gold standard,

draw their leave and pension pay at the current rate of ex-

change for the dellar. In other words, the privilege of drawing

leave salaries and pensions at fictitious rates should be en-

tirely abolished in respect of Officers who join the service

after the date mentioned.

(7.)

Food, light and fuel allowances should be

discontinued and merged in salary.

(G.)

No pension should exceed in smount the sum

of £1,000 Sterling per annum.

等

14.

Turning to the salaries of

individual

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offices, I have to submit the following remarks on the proposals

contained in the scheme, basing them on the views of the

Committee.

As regards the proposed salaries of Chief

Justice, Colonial Secretary, Puisne Judge and Attorney General,

I am of opinion that these salaries ought to be equal to those

the

paid in Straits Settlements, remembering in the case of the Colonial Secretary here that he has not a house supplied as at

Singapore.

Class I. The Principal Civil Medical Officer has

been included in this class as his duties are now of a very

onerous and responsible nature.The privilege of free quarters

has been withdrawn.

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