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following few heads:-

* Done (i)

(ii)

(iii)

(iv)

Salaries of staff employed either on

administrative accounting duties including those engaged on planning.

Salaries of other officers, i.e., those

awaiting absorption or in receipt of allowances to bring present pay up to Colony rate,

Pensions and gratuities.

Maintenance grants.

(a) Australia

(b) Macao

(c) Chungking.

(v)

Relief expenditure

(vi)

Miscellaneous.

Once this estimate had been approved we should

wish to be given a free hand to incur expenditure from

the provision without prior reference to you provided we

were satisfied that the payments to be made were in

strict accordance with Hong Kong legislation or regulations

or with arrangements separately approved by the Treasury

in the past.

abready

cured by bgislatul in other approval)

If, however, expenditure arose during the year,

for which no provision, or insufficient provision, had been

made, we should like to have authority to incur this without

prior sanction provided the amount involved did not exceed

a certain figure and no question of principle or policy

was involved.

If a question of principle or policy were involved,

it would be understood that we came to you for prior sanction.

The limit up to which we could incur expenditure without

prior reference to. you might be fixed at £5,000 on any individual item or up to an aggregate of, say, £50,000 for

the year;

La £100.000

this would apply to both recurrent and non-

recurrent items.

Any