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RETURN OP OFFICERS IN THE

OFFICE. NAME. Date of Appointment. By whom appointed and under Annual Rate of Salary payable on Amount of Fees retained as Perquisites Whether tho Principal bo allowed a house for his personal residence, or what allowance, (if any) for house rent or quarters. Whether the Office be held in conjunction with any and what other Civil or Military Office, or Appointment, or place of profit, on the Period during which the Officer has been absent from the Colony during the year 1865. Whether the Principal onjov any and what other advantage or profit not required to be stated in the preceding columns. Total period of Service under the General Government. what Instrument. 30th April, 1866. during the year 1865. General Government or any Provincial Government of New Zealand. Date of first Appointment. Years of Actual Service. Supreme Court, continued — New Plymouth — Registrar ... Edward Smyth Wilcocks 1 June, 1861 II. E. the Governor £ b. d. 100 0 0 £ s. d. None Registration and Returning Officer —salary £50. Clerk to the Resident Magistrate's Court — salary £150 Not absent Official Administrator of Intestate Estates —Fees. 1 June, 1861 Y. M. 4 5 Sheriff Crier Jos. Flight JohnEdmund Bates 21 Sept., 1858 27 July, 186-1 do. do. 5 0 0 ... do. do. i Also Resident Magistrate None do. do. None On sales under Coveyancing O. A. Act, 1860, 1 per cent, to £200. & £ above that sum. 21 Sep., 1858 7 8 1 9 Xapier — Deputy Registrar Sheriff Wellington — Registrar ... Sheriff Dp. Regist rar & Clerk Crier and Messenger Xelson — Registrar ... " James Grindell ... G. S. Cooper Robert It. Strang... J. C. Crawford ... A. Sutherland Allan James Spiers John Sharp 29 May, 1865 17 Mar., 1810 Jan., I860 6 Sept., 1858 24 Jan., 1848 1 Jan., 1853 do. do. Officer administering the Government II. E. the Governor, do. do. do. 75 0 0 50 0 0 ■500 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 120 0 0 100 0 0 ... do. do. do. do. do. do. do. Clk. & Interpreter of R. M.'s Court, £225; Editor "Waka Maori" newspaper, £90; Prov. Interpreter, £25 (temporary, from Provincial funds). Also R. M., Waipukurau, £350 Reg. ot the Yice-Admiralty Ct. without additional salary, also Official Admin, of Intcs. Estates for the middle div. of N.Z., receiving 5 per cent, on ready money and 8 per cent, on amount realized R.M. and Ret. Officer, £600 None do. Clerk to R. M. @ £200; Reg. & Returning Officer, @ £75 ; District Court Clerk @ £75 per annum. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. None do. do. do. do. do. do. 20 Sept., 1859 I June, 1841 20 Oct., 1841 5 Jan., 1864 6 Sep., 1858 24 Jan., 1848 1 Jan., 1851 6 7 24 10 24 0 2 4 7 0 17 0 15 0 - •