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increase in salary of £60 per annum whereas the salary of

Master in charge of the Police School amounts, with ex-

-change compensation at 3 shillings to the dollar, to £90

per annum. Mr. Dealy is prepared to sacrifice the £30 for

3 years for the sake of the promotion and the ultimately

better pay that will accrue to him from it and I propose

to avoid the necessity of having on any future occasion

to offer the alternative of resignation of an office held

in one Department or forfeiture of promotion in another by

making the charge of the Police School no longer a

permanent appointment and by giving a temporary allowance

as remuneration to the Officer actually performing the

duty. I propose that this allowance should be at the rate

of $900 per annum which at the present rate of exchange is

approximately equivalent to the approved salary of $600

per annum with exchange compensation at the rate of 3

shillings to the dollar.

4.

I further propose to offer the

charge of the Police School with the allowance at the rate

specified to Mr. A. V. Grant who is now on leave, on his

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return to the Colony for so long as he continues to be a

Senior Assistant Master of Queen's College and while he is

actually