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Treasurer,

Principal assistant Colonial Secretary,

First Magistrate,

Director of Mucation,

Postmaster General,

Superintendent of Imports and Exports,

shall receive acting pay in accordance with General Order

92 (1). The six posts named together with the Secretaryship

for Chinese Affairs (. about which, being now a definite

appointment, there is no difficulty) will then curr.spond to

the seven First Class appointments recommended in paragraph

42.

At the same time it is recommcncd that the

allowances referred to in the final clause of paragraph 163

shall be abolished: also the allowances (not mentience in

the Report) now from by the Principal and Second 3ssistent

Colonial Secretary, for duty as Clerk and Deputy Clerk of

Councils respectively

It will be observe that the proposed rule runs

counter to Colonial Regulation M..54 in that it allows acting

pay to be from whether there is pay lapsing as the result of

half-pay leave or not. But this departure, which already appears in General Order 92 (1) issued in connection with the

Solerics Revision of 1920, is cssential, if acting-pay is to

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be an appreciable clement in the cmoluments of the Servi♦c.

For since the introduction of commuted half-pay love, it has

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