No. 36

With reference to my recent Despatch No. 35 of the 22nd ultimo, I
must correct an error under which one portion of it was written. The
last sentence reminded you that under general regulation Mr. Needham
could not claim credit for more than half salary for the period of his
outward voyage. This sentence was inserted by an inadvertent assumption
that Mr. Needham's would be the ordinary case of an Officer going out on
half salary whilst another Officer was acting in the Colony with the
remaining moiety of the salary. But in point of fact, as you are aware,
the present Chief Justice on the spot is now drawing the full salary at
present belonging to the Office, whilst on the other hand the act which
has been passed for assigning a new and higher salary to the Chief
Justice coming from England declares in the first Clause that this
salary will commence from and after the arrival of the Chief Justice in
the Colony.