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are nececourily far more limited than those whoce home is in

England: and secondly, that with regard to all officers, the

large reduction in salaries has considerably reduced the mount

available for remittances: or, to take the converte care, vhers

the amount renitted ic, ac it often mirt be, a constant quantity,

the amount available for living in the Colony is in itc turn

constantly diminishings,

9.

In urging the Cecretary of State to re-consider hic

decision we grently rely on the action which the Colonial Office

has sanctioned in the past to redress rimilar herdchipc. on four

separate occasione oring to the fluctuation of the doller the

Secretary of State has sunctioned the grunt of relief by the

Jovernment to itɛ officers. The change from cilver to rterling

wuc înde with a similar object in viør. Te cubmit with respect or

and confidence that in doing thic the Lecretary of Ltole has

recogniced that it is the duty of a Government to mitigate the

hardchips caured by the uncertain course of exchange, end to do

that it cen to eliminate the element of uncertainty from itc

officers' snlaries, which it so prejudicir) from every point of

vier. The hardship from which civil tervints are now offering

is as acute at on any previous occaston rhen necmures of redrece

have been adopted. imt it differs in its nature from that which

existed on the previoun o^cnelone in one important particular,

and, oring to the fhots - which have been dwelt on in the

preceding paragraphe, needs, we submit, different treatment.

The consequences of a fall in the value of the currency

may be in part redressed by the grant of Fraily romittrmcer et

itc accumed normal value: it may also be partially redressed by

exchange compensation baced on the principle of bringing the

doller back to this value. But neither of these remedier 10

fitted to moet catisfactorily the converse cuce of a hardship

created by a rise in the value of the currency. The cuse har

this special feature that nearures of relief occncion no extra