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“ Throughout the service, under Council, there are not more 
than ten or twelve appointments, which, by local advantages and 
the emoluments of office, will yield any thing more than a main- 
tenance; and these, I must concur with the address before me, 
cannot now justly be reckoned in the general estimate of the ser- 
vice; for, by the special appointment of the Court of Directors to 
them, they are no longer a common chance. It follows then, that 
in general the servants of the Company have nothing but their 
immediate pay to depend on, and the trifling advantages of the 
few offices on the island; which are not more than adequate to 
their common expenses, without being in the least extravagant. 
If then a decent competence to retire with to their native country 
is but what every man who enters the service of the Company may 
justly look to, how hard is their situation; for it is but too pre- 
sumable, that, in the present state of things, they must be thirty 
years rising to council, and then they must wait for some time 
before the most reasonable wishes in point of fortune can be 
gratified. 
“ The whole system here is on so different a scale from what it 
is at Bengal, that S would not be thought, with such a deficiency of 
means, to wish to place the senior servants in the situation they are 
there: yet I cannot help remarking the liberality of the Company 
to their servants at that presidency in tiie common article of salary: 
the mere salaries of the provincial councils of revenue, I am in- 
formed, are as follow; the chief, 1200 rupees per month; the 
second and third, 800 each; and the fourth and fifth, 700 rupees 
each: these councils, I am also informed, are composed of senior 
and junior merchants. 
