198 TRINIDAD. 



Receiver-General. — Receiver-General, £800 ; provisional, 

 £175 : total, £975. Chief clerk and accountant, £360 ; second 

 clerk and cashier, £340; three clerks, £530; two messengers, 

 £110; allowance to cashier, £40; excise officer, £229 19s. 2d.; 

 lockers, £140 ; San Fernando sub-receiver, £450 ; clerk, £200. 

 Excise : locker and extra clerk, £220 ; allowance to cashier £10; 

 supervisors, £100; contingencies, labour at bonding warehouses, 

 £142 10s. : total, £3,847 9s. 2d. 



Immigration. — Protector of immigrants, including travelling 

 expenses and personal, £1,000; inspector, £500; sub-inspector 

 and assistant inspector, £400 ; five clerks, £1,060; interpreters, 

 £385 ; messenger, £40 ; travelling allowances to inspector and 

 sub-inspector, £250 : total, £3,637. 



Auditor-General. — For many years the Colonial Secretary 

 had also the title of Auditor of Public Accounts. Some years 

 ago, however, an audit office was organised, and the staff no^ 

 consists of an Auditor-General, with a salary of £700 ; chiel 

 clerk, £450; clerks, £1,450; messengers, £70: total, £2,670. 



Registrar- General. — This office was established by Or- 

 dinance 12, 1847. The Registrar- General is mainly registrar oi 

 deeds. A fee of ten shillings to twenty shillings is exacted foi 

 the registration of deeds, and from twenty shillings to tw( 

 shillings for that of wills, probate, and letters of administration 

 also a fee of one shilling for office copies of any deed, will, oi 

 other document ; from twenty shillings to five shillings for certi- 

 ficates, and one shilling for examining any deed, will, or other 

 document. There is also a registrar of births, deaths, and 

 marriages for the towns of Port-of-Spain and San Fernando, 

 and for each ward respectively ; these are paid from the funds of 

 the two boroughs and the wards — a sum of one shilling for each 

 registry of birth and death. In case such registration has not 

 been made in due time, the party in default pays a fine not ex- 

 ceeding £5. Registrar-General, £500 ; chief clerk, £300 ; clerk, 

 £50; pay of copying clerks, local newspapers, £115 : total, 

 £965. 



Public Works and Survey. — An office of public works had 

 been established in the year 1845. Previous to its formation, 

 the Surveyor- General had the superintendence of all the public 

 works. The engineer officer of the garrison, however, was occa- 

 sionally employed ; and he was particularly so engaged in super- 



