CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924 — Page 66

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"The Under-Secretary of State," Foreign Office,

London, S. W. 1.

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sir,

FOREIGN OFFICE.

17 MAR 24

S.V.1.

15th March, 1924.

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57839/23

13,000.

7,000.

10,000.

YO 384

With reference to Colonial Office letter

51839/23 of the 5th instant relative to the remuneration to be paid to the Chief Justice of Hongkong for sitting as a member of the proposed Court of Appeal at Shanghai, I am directed by

Mr. Secretary Ramsay MacDonald to state, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are not prepared to sanction the payment to this officer of an allowance of three thousand dollars

a year, free of income tax.

2. The Treasury have however, intimated semi-officially that they are prepared to agree to an arrangement whereby

the allowance of three thousand dollars a year should be

paid to the Chief Justice by the Hongkong Government, whose contribution to the Registry of Companies at

Shanghai should be reduced by a corresponding amount, viz,to seven thousand dollars a year instead of ten

thousand dollars per annum as agreed in Foreign Office letter of January 3rd last (F 3622/127/10). The allow- ance would then be free of United Kingdom income tax

and would be payable from the date on which the necessary

Order in Council is brought into force.

3./

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial office.