CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902 — Page 202

CIRCULAR,

Windward

204649

Downing Street,

31st July, 1902.

Sir,

I have the honour to inform you that a question has recently been

raised with regard to the payment of interest on the furniture of the Government

House of a Crown Colony when the Governor is on leave.

2. I am advised that the charge of 5% must be regarded as a standing

deduction from the Governor's salary, and, as such, is payable by the person who

draws the salary. Thus while the Governor is on full pay leave the whole of the

charge must be defrayed by him, and while he is on half pay leave half should be

paid by him, and half by the Officer Administering the Government.

3. As the deterioration of furniture must be regarded as continuing

even when it is not in use, this rule will apply not only in the cases where the

Officer Administering the Government occupies Government House, but also in

those cases where the house is unoccupied during the Governor's absence.

To the Officer Administering

the Government of

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

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