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the salons.

and

of the scheme that all non cluical fists over $1200 a year all forts below that limit adinarily filled I the aff) of sections from thiscanty shall be fixed in sterling so that ultimately there will be a subordinate service andollar salaries and all the

officers higher forts will to held by

starting salaries. Add that is fened that the principles regulating the starting scheme and the grant of douth exchange comfensation, laid down in despes afto the Straits IFMS of which

in It is assumed copies hav. accordance with wishuctions, been transmitted to H. Kay, have not been chail understood in the

clearly Matter Coly, and that it is intended that so far as is possibl the principles regulating the skibining scheme d'exchange comfempation shes shall bridentical in all the flier. Add that th. "Haggard must be faid the

salay of the fast.

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Goverment House,

Hongkong, 15th. November, 1902.

I have the honour to acknowledge the re-

ceipt of your Despatch No. 318 of the 30th. of last September

and to refer you in reply to paragraph 6 of my Confidential

Despatch of the 11th. of December, 1901, in which I stated

that the Sterling Salary Scheme, forvarded under cover of

that Despatch, was designed to include all offices which would

in the ordinary course be held by Europeans appointed from

home. In other words all Officers entitled to draw Exchange

Compensation.

2.

In paragraph 7 of the same Despatch. I

enumerated certain offices in Post Office to which Sterling

Salaries were allotted because I anticipated that these

positions would in all probability be filled by European

Officers. appointed from home.

3.

From this principle I deduce in the first

instance the conclusion that an European Officer on probation

jand, therefore, under Exchange Compensation Rules not entitled

Ito Exchange Compensation, should not draw a Sterling Salary,

and secondly that while the offices referred to in the Post

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Office are held by Officers not entitled to Exchange Compensa-

tion such Officers are to be paid in dollars. The Officers who THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,

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