CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3] — Page 557

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refer Your Lordship to paragraph 3 of Mr.

29 June Memorandum dated the 23rd. July, 1908, a copy of which was

enclosed in my Confidential Despatch of the 2nd. July, 1908,

and to inform Your Lordship that I considered in Executive

Council on the 7th. ultimo the question of what compensat-

-ion, if any, should be granted to the keepers of the Opium

Divens for the loss of their business, and decided upon the

advice of a majority of the Council that the compensation

given should be one-third of the corrected capital of the

divan-keepers in question, i.e. a total sum of $16,747.27.

This compensation is now being paid to the divan-keepers

by the Registrar-General.

6.

I regret to inform Your Lordship

in this connection that a mistake was made in the amount

of compensation paid to the keepers of the 26 Opium

Divans which were closed in March, 1909. In their case I

was advised by the Executive Council that each divan-keeper

should be paid as compensation a sum equal to one-third of

his corrected capital plus 5 per centum of such capital

for disturbance without feir notice, i.e. a total sim of

$3,237.32. The Treasurer was instructed to calculate the

compensation so payable and owing to a clerical error in

his Department the compensation was reckoned as 138

1383

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centum