CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923 — Page 216

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FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.7.1.

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REG. 28 MAY 23

May 26th, 1923.

With reference to your letter of the 14th Keroh

last regarding the remuneration to be paid to the Cilef

Justice of Hongkong for sitting as an Appeal Judge zi

Shanghai, I am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs to transmit herewith a copy of a letter on the subject

which has been received from His Majesty's Treasury,

2. It will be seen that the Lords Commissioners of the

Treasury zro prepared to sanction the payment to the Chief

Justice of Hongkong or his deputy of an allowance of three

hundred pounds a year payable at the rate of two shillings to

the doller to ether with actual travelling expenses and a

subsistence allowance of fifteen dollars a day, but that they

cannot agree that this sum shall be paid free of income tax.

3. I am to enquire whether the arrangement 26 now

authorised is acceptable to the Secretary of State for the

Colonies and the government of Hongkong.

Under Secretary of State,

Cclonial Office.

I QIG,

Sir,

Your obedient Servrut,

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