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A. Blake, Governor of Hongkong. The letter of appointment
of Mr. Moore, dated 12th. September, 1905, specifying that
the appointment was without quarters or allowances of any
kind, was therefore long subsequent to the General Order,
and it seems clear that the terms of the Order must yield
to the terms of appointment.
Apart from the conflicting terms
of the letter of appointment and of the General Order in
question, I think that Your Lordship will be of opinion
that it was the intention, when the salaries of Assistant
Surgeons were fixed at £480 to £720 by £40 triennial in-
-crements, that those salaries should cover and do away
with house allowances. On this point I would refer Your
Lordship to paragraph 2 of Mr. Lucas's letter of 21st.
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March, 1902, enclosed in Mr. Chamberlain's Despatch No. 91
of the 27th. March, 1902, and addressed to Dr. W. J. E.
Davies, in which Mr. Lucas wrote:- "The statement in Mr.
"Howard's letter that a house allowance would be granted to
"you was made under a misapprehension as it has been
"decided that future Assistant Surgeons shall not receive
"an allowance of that description. I am,however, to inform
"you that, in connection with a general revision of the
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