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Enclosure 1.
RULES FOR RENT ALLOWANCES.
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1. A scheme of rent allowances for European officers on the permanent staff, who do not occupy free Government quarters, has been approved; with effect from the Ist January, 1917.
2. For the purposes of these allowances officers are divided into the following Classes :--
CLASS
1-Salary amounting to $5,000 with Exchange Compensation or £900
and over.
CLASS II-Salary between 84,650 and $5,999 with Exchange Compensation
or €700 and £899 inclusive.
CLASS 1]]—Salary less than the salary of Class [].
The term salary means the salary of an officer's substantive appointment, including duty pay.
3. The rent allowance approximates to the difference between the sun which an officer in fact pays in respect of rent and assessed taxes and the sum which it is proposed to charge for rented Government quarters. This latter sum amounts to $60, $50, and $40 according as the officer concerned is in Glass I, Class II, or Class III.
4. In the case of an officer who is the owner of the house which he occupies the assessed value together with the taxes thereof shall be reckoned for purposes of the rent allowances.
5. In calculating rent and taxes fractions of a dollar amounting to fifty or more cents are to be reckoned as one dollar, while lower fractions are to be disregarded.
6. In calculating rent allowances no account is to be taken of the special war rate, levied under Ordinance No. 18 of 1917.
7. Au officer is not entitled to a rent allowance unless he is the sole occupant of a tenement, with his wife and family, if any. The decision as to what constitutes a tenement rosty with the Governor. Generally speaking a tenement may be defined, for the purposes of these rules, as a separate house, or a self-contained Hat of three or more rooms, but it does not include a single room or two rooms occupied by an officer singly.
8. The maximum rent, inclusive of assessed taxes, is for the purposes of these rules: in Class I, 8200: in Class II, $175: in Class III, $125. It must however be clearly understool that these are maximum figures only; and that the amount of rent which will be recognised for purposes of a rent allowance remains solely in the discretion of the Governor, who will be guided in each individual case by the seniority and the general standing in his class of the officer concerned.
9. When an officer, who is in receipt of a rent allowance, ceases to be the sole occupant of the tenement in respect of which he receives such rent allowance, he shall forthwith notify the Colonial Secretary through the Head of his Department. An officer shall not cease to be the sole occupatit of a tenement by reason of the temporary residence therein of a guest who pays nothing for board or lodging.
10. When an officer, who is in receipt of a rent allowance, receives such increase in his emoluments as may cause him to pass into Class 1 or Class II, as the case may be, he must forthwith bring the matter to the notice of the Colonial Secretary throngli the Head of his Department.
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11. Any change or proposed change of residence by an officer entitled to a rent allowance must be notified through the Head of Departinent to the Colonial Secretary; and the Governor will thereupon decide the amount of rent allowance which will be paid in respect of the new residence.
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12. All claims for a rent allowance must be addressed through the Head of Depart- ment to the Colonial Secretary.
18. Rent allowances are payable in respect of each month on the last day of the month, and payments will be made by means of a voucher in the form annexed. Heads of Departments, before siguing a voucher, must satisfy themselves, by scrutiny of rent receipts, or by the obtaining of a signed statement from the officer concerned, or other- wise, that the allowance shown in the voncher is properly payable under these rules.
14. Any officer who wishes to make a representation regarding the application of these rules to himself should call personally upon the Assistaut Colonial Secretary,
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