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No.

4 1804

HONGKONG.

GOVERNOR'S SALARY: INCREASE.

Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.

HONGKONG.

No. 436.

DOWNING STREET.

8th December, 1903.

SIR, I have recently had under my consideration the question of the amount of salary paid to the Governors of first class Crown Colonies, and I have come to the conclusion that the emoluments received by the Governors of Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and Hongkong are not sufficient to allow of their supporting the dig- nity of their position, as it should be supported, without supplementing their official salary from private income.

2. I am sure that your Legislative Council will see the matter in the same light, and I have therefore to request that you will invite the Council to vote an in- crease to the Governor's salary, from the 1st of January, 1904, from five thousand pounds to six thousand pounds a year of which sum one thousand two hundred pounds should be regarded as an entertainment allowance to be drawn in full by the Officer Administering the Government in the Governor's absence on full or half pay leave.

I have, &c.,

ALFRED LYTTELTON.

THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT OF

HONGKONG.