CO129-558-3 Levy on Salaries- petition from Chinese Civil Servants 3-1-1936 - 19-12-1936 — Page 71

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Requests telegraphic approval for introduction of Bill to fix 1/3d exchange limit on sterling salaries and to modify Ordinance 17/1936

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file, the revenue

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o the Budget

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a 1937

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etimate

$3.2 millia. Thes

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$2244 million

any. levy

bee la

1.e. in both cases

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that file,

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to

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salary levy

1

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asperformed by

the Gov•

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The

Hours of NO 19

this file

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came into effect, (which w= only

be if the present recovery

n

trade

in H.K.

were checked.

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