Mr Elliot
No sum has been fixed upon as a salary for the Governor's P.
Secy.
Hitherto
Mr Douglas has employed
Mr Good in that capacity without
salary, that gentleman being Chief Clerk for
B.C., receiving £350
from that Colony, but residing at
V.C.Id—for which place also he
does the work appertaining to a Chief Clerk.
Mr Good will now have
to go to the Colony on acc
t of which he is paid—and
Mr Kennedy
will have to replace him. Assuming that the
Govr selects a
successor to
Mr Good in the Clerkship, and assigns him the same
salary (350) as that Officer
recd, an addition of £100 a year
wd,
I think, be ample remuneration for the further duties of Priv:
Secy. In such case the two situations
wd be combined in one
person. But if the Governor were to urge that it is not expedient,
or prudent to combine the 2 situations, & that it is preferable that
a Priv:
Secy shd be kept distinct from other official duties, & be
more of a personal attendant, like an A.D.C., than a Chief Clerk
of an Office could be, then, in such case, it
wd be requisite to
assign him a separate salary—& £250 per ann:
wd probably not be
too much. Application would have to be made to the Assembly for any
salary, no sum having been named in our
desph respecting the Civil
List.
In another
desph 8392 the
Govr submits the name of
Mr Wakefield
for the vacant
Colonial Secretarship. It seems to me—being in
ignorance of the
Duke of Newcastle's views—that if His Grace allows
Mr Kennedy to nominate a Priv:
Secy, & to fill up the vacancies,
of which there will be 2 or 3 in the Chief Clerk's Office in
Van
Couvers Island His Grace may prefer retaining himself the patronage
of the Colonial
Secy, instead of giving it to
Mr Kennedy.