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get a grant).

Robertson and I think that the University should be

prepared to offer £1500, or even £2000, to a really good man, plus

$200 a month for a house allowance.

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We think that the subjects which the Professor should be

specially qualified to teach, should be English Law and Comparative

Jurisprudence. A good lawyer working here should be able to

exercise a lot of influence in Shanghai and Nanking.

The Salaries Committee has suggested a new scale for

Senior Lecturers, namely £750 per annum rising by annual increments

of £40 per annum to £950. The only other whole-time post we are

suggesting is that of a senior lecturer. We suggest that he should

be recruited on the above scale. He would receive a house allowance

of $200 a month, if he were married and his wife were in the

Colony. We may take $200 a month as representing the outside cost

for house allowance. It is suggested that the Lecturer should

teach Roman Law and Constitutional Law.

The rest of the work we would arrange by part-time

lectures, paid at the rate of $15 an hour. We should want an initial

grant, of £1000 for the library and an annual recurring grant of £100

for the same purpose.

We shall probably also be able to arrange for

the students to make use of the Supreme Court Library: They would

also attend cases at that Court. It would be necessary to provide

the Professor with a whole-time stenographer. Such a stenographist

could be recruited locally and would require about $200 a month.

Another clerk would be required. We have three grades of clerks in

the University, the lowest $50 a month 10 - $80 a month; the

middle grade $90 10 $120 a month; the highest grade $120 - 10 -

180 (efficiency bar $150). I am including $100 for the clerk.

The general practice in Hong Kong is to quote salarios of

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