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Salary of the Assistant Colonial Secretary and
Clerk of Councils.
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1.
The post of Clerk of Councils, which has a consider.
-ably longer history than that of Assistant Colonial Secretary
first appears in the Hongkong Blue Book for 1844, when it was
combined with the post of Auditor General and the officer
holding the combined posts drew a salary of £1,000.
In 1847 the post of Clerk of Councils was separated
from that of Auditor-General and an allowance of £100 per
annuum allotted to it: and this allowance was in 1858 raised to
£200, being at that date equivalent to $960 per annum.
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In Sessional Paper No. 23 of 1889 it is shown that
the salary of $960 which i 1860 at 4 s. 2 d. dollar was worth
£200 was in 1889 with 3 s. 04 d. dollar worth only £146; and,
when forwarding in despatch No. 389 of the 23rd. December, 1889,
the report of a Cormission appointed to consider the question of
increases to salaries of Public Officers, Sir G. Des Voeux
recommended inter alia that the allowance made to the Clerk of
Councils should be increased. Lord Knutsford intimated his
approval in despatch No. 110 of the 19th. June, 1890, and in
the Colonial Estimates for 1891 the salary of Clerk of Councils
was raised from $960 to $1,296 per annum.
2.
Mr. Marsh, when Colonial Secretary, in a memorandum
dated the 17th. May, 1883, reported that he considered it
essential that the staff of the Colonial Secretary's Office
which at that date consisted of a Chief Clerk (Mr. Seth) and 6
other clerks, should be strengthened by the appointment of an
Assistant Colonial Secretary. The then Governor, Sir G. F.
Bowen, recommended the appointment to the Earl of Derby in
Despatch No. 85 of the 24th. May, 1883, and advised that the
post should carry an annual salary of $3,360 equivalent to
about £600 in English money". The Secretary of State in Despatch
No. 142 of the 18th. July, 1883, approved this recommendation
and
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