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efficient and reliable and that they should belong if possible

to the class of Chinese literati; and I am of the opinion

the

that the salaries now proposed are lowest for which suitable

clerks can be retained in the service of the Department.

5.

I have therefore to recommend that the

salaries of these Officers be increased to the amounts shewn

in the annexed schedule and that such increases be paid to

them from the 1st. of January 1903.

I have the honour to be,

sir,

Your most obedient

Humble servant,

Henry Ashake

Governor, be..