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on this subject, please

No.

F 317/222/10.

and address,

but to-

not to any person by name,

"The Under-Becretary of State,” Foreign Ofs,

London, 8.W.4

11114

FOREIGN OFFICE.

S.W.1.

5 MAR 231st March, 1923.

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With further reference to Foreign Office letter

2970/2970/10 of the 18th September last on the subject of

the provision of some more satisfactory eyeter for the

hearing of appeals from the Judge and Assistant Judge of

the Supreme Court for China at Shanghai, I am directed by

the Secretary of Ste te for Foreign Affairs to state, for

the information of the Duke of Devonshire, that the Lords

Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have approved the

proposed arrangements as regards the emoluments of the

Chief Justice of Hongkong, or some other competent lawyer

in his place, when acting as a member of the Full Court in

Shanghai.

2. The proposed emolument is the same as in the cage of

the Judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court at Shanghai, when

visiting Hongkong as a Judge of the Appeal Court there, viz.,

that the Chief Justice of Hongkong, when visiting Shanghai

as a Judge of the Appeal Court there, should receive a yearly non-pensionable allowance of two hundred and fifty

pounds together with actual travelling expenses and a

subsistence allowance of fifteen dollere a day.

815.

3.

that the mount of

Their Lordships consider, however, the non-pensionable allowance to be paid to the Chief Justice

for Hongkong, o

or the Lawyer who deputises for him,should be subject to reconsideration in three years' time, having "ezard to the number of working days which are found to be required

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The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial Office.

At once

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