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Scheme of Salaries for the Subordinate Officers of the Forest 
Department, Straits Settlements 
( Vide Secretary of State's Despatch No. j of 3rd January, 1908.) 
Appointments. 
Grade. 
Salary. 
Place. 
Increments, 
Annual. 
Forest Ranger 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Foresters 
Forest Guards 
Do. 
\: 
11 
1 
hi 
IV 
£160- £220 
£i30-£i6o 
£160-^220 
# 
$7 20-$ 1, 080 
$420-$66 o 
r 
1 
$240-$36o-<! 
$I20-$I92 
$i44-$2i6. 
Malacca 
Penang 
Dindings 
Singapore 
Penang 
Malacca 
Dindings 
.Singapore 
Malacca 
Penang 
Dindings 
P. Wellesley 
Singapore 
£10 
£10 
£lO 
$60 
$30 
con 
(2) 1 
(2) S* Four of $30 
Wil 
(0 j 
(10) Six of $12 
Penang 
Dindings l(i2)j 
P. Wellesley I 
Malacca (16); 
Six of 
$ 12 
1. Forest Rangers, Grade II, will not be eligible for promotion to Grade I, until 
they have passed an examination in Forest Law and in the Malay Language, which 
latter shall include ; — 
(i) Being able to converse freely in Malay on all matters connected with their 
duties ; 
(ii) Being able to take down a report without the help (of an interpreter ; and 
(iii) Passing an elementary examination in vocabulary. 
2. All sterling appointments and those of Forest Rangers, Grade III, will be 
pensionable, except where the officer is under agreement or oil deputation. 
3. — (i) In the case of annual increments the first increment in each case will date 
from the 1st January or the 1st July next subsequent to the completion of a year’s 
service. 
(ii) List of officers eligible and recommended for increment will be sent in 
triplicate to the Colonial Secretary in December and June of each year for approval, 
and, if approved, one copy will be sent to the Conservator, and one to the Auditor- 
General, who will issue the necessary warrants after satisfying himself that the officers 
affected are eligible for the increments under the scheme. 
(iii) The Conservator will certify on these lists that the conduct of every officer 
recommended for an increment has been good, and that he has performed his duty in a 
satisfactory manner, 
(iv) It will be his duty to refuse the increment for which any officer is eligible, in 
every case in which such officer has been guilty of misconduct or has failed in the 
performance of his duty. 
4. — (ij Officers holding appointments as Forest Rangers, Foresters and Forest 
Guards are entitled, until further tice, to occupy Government Quarters free of rent. 
