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6. Turning to details and taking the highest appointments first, I agree to the salary of the Chief Justice being fixed at £2,000 a year. The salary of the Colonial Secretary should be fixed at £1,600 as in the Straits Settlements. The post of Attorney General has been offered to and accepted by Sir H. BERKELEY on £1,500 a year: and, I think the Puisne Judge should receive the same salary as the Senior Puisne Judge of the Straits, viz., £1,300 per annum.

7. I have followed the system adopted in the Eastern Colonies, by classifying separately the appointments for which cadets are eligible.

This arrangement proved to be exceptionally difficult in the case of Hongkong, owing to the smallness of the cadet service and the fact that there are very few appointments in the lower classes of the Government service, as classified by Sir H. BLAKE, which are usually held by cadets. I have, in fact, been compelled to abandon any attempt to arrange the cadet posts into the same number of classes as in the Straits Settlements; and I have, instead, divided them into three classes, which are made to cover the same range of salaries as in the Straits Settlements by providing in each class more in- crements and larger in amount.

8. I propose, in short, that the cadet service shall be classified as follows:-

Class 1.

Colonial Treasurer, £800 rising to £1,000 by two triennial increments of £100.

Registrar General,

First Magistrate,

Captain Superintendent of Police,

do.

do.

do.

Class II.

(£600 rising to £720 by three

* Registrar of the Supreme Court,...........ennial increments of £40.

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* Postmaster General,

Inspector of Schools,

* Second Magistrate,

Assistant Colonial Secretary,

Deputy Superintendent of Police,

do.

do.

do.

do.

do.

* Deputy Registrar & Accountant,

*

*

Class III.

Assistant Registrar General,..

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triennial increments of £40.

do.

do.

do.

do.

do.

Do.

do..

do.

Do. & Appraiser,

Secretary to the Sanitary Board,

* Assistant Postmaster General,

* Assistant Superintendent of Police,

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*

[The appointments marked thus are not at present held by cadets, but should for the future be generally given to cadets if any are qualified for them.]

9. I am aware that the majority of the posts in Class III have not, hitherto, been considered to belong to the cadet service. They are, however, posts which cadets can fairly be called upon to occupy, and the duties of which they will in all probability be qualified to fulfil. On this point Sir HENRY BLAKE, whom I have had the advantage of consulting, is inclined to agree.

In future, therefore, a vacancy in one of these posts should preferably be filled by the selection of a cadet, if a cadet can be found who is qualified to hold it.

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