CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4] — Page 381

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No. 2189.

sir,

Enclosure No. 2 to Despatch No./22 of the

12th. March, 1902.

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371

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 39th. NovelBer?R1900.

I am directed to transmit for your information the enclosed copy of the Secretary of State's

Despatch No. 170 of the 27th. August, 1897, and to request

you to be so good as to consult with the other Unofficial

Members of Legislative Council as to the advisability of

adopting the scheme therein proposed, whereby the pensions

payable to Widows and Orphans of Hongkong Civil Servants,

resident in a country with a Gold Standard, would be paid at

the rate of 3/- to the dollar, the difference between the

amounts so reckoned and those payable out of the Fund (at the

current rate of exchange) being made good by the Colonial

Government.

2. I am to inform you that if after

consultation with the other Unofficial Members you see fit

to move a resolution for the adoption of this scheme, at the

next or any subsequent meeting of Degislative Council, His

Excellency the Governor authorises you to do so.

I have etc.,

(Sd) J. B. Stewart Lockhart,

Colonial Secretary.

The Honourable

C. P. Chater, C.M.G.