The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-01-17 00:00:00

OFFICIAL CIRCULAR.

T 7 assithers, Jan. sosn.
My Lords advert to their Mhinies Of the 111th of An-
glin last, respecting the revision of the establishment of
the several Public Offices, and also in regard to the for.
station of a Superannnition Fund, by a per ventage dm
diction to be made from the salaries of certain public
eaters. Their Lordships having before them the re-
turns made in purloiner of the said Minutes, will here-
after communicate their detertnioation or opinion
there*n tenth office, eis far as the establishment of such
office maybe concerned. lint , 1 rules of general
application have arisen out of a review of the Minutes
referred to, and upon a consideration of the several re
terns, say Lords are pleased to direct a copy of the fol-
lowing Rules and Regulations to be transmitted to the
several Public Offices' for their information end guidance
so far as they may be respectively concerned:-
Ist. The increase of salary for length of service accord-
ing to the existing scales having been snspensled, by,
thew Lordships' Minute of the April last,ibly an
sow pleased to direct that all the individuals maths, 'is;
cording to those scales, became entitled to increased se*
Lay for length,of service, previously to the terusioatime
of the Christmas quarter of 1821, should be permitted*
receive such increase from the period from ',hicks.*
the former establishment of the office, they becesse *s-
tilled thereto, and that from the commencement of the
year 1822 the new establishment should take place. But
*eery person will retain the salary to which he may
have been entitled at the termination of the year 182 f,
until be may be under the new establishment become
**titled to a larxer salary,.
2d. That those persons who are in the progress of a
period at the close of which they would, under the for-
mer estahliahment, be entitled to inert.** the allowance
for length of service, shall not lose the benefit of that
part of the period which has actually expired ; but at
the expiration of the period Which would have entitled
Ilbau according to the former establishment to increased
salary, they shall receive it; addition to their present sa-
lary and allowances such proportion of theincrease of
salary as will correspond with that part of the period
which had expired up to the end of the Christmas gear-
ter of 1821.
3d. That the application of any new scale for the
payment of salaries in any office according, to
cl , shall in no ease give to any person while be re-
mains in the class to which he now belongs, any increase
of salary at an earlier period than he would have ob-
tained it according to the scale which existed imuseili-
ate7 previous to the termination of the Christmas qsar-
ter of 1821.
4th. That if by any new classification or arrase*
mint of clerks, or if by any succession to Vielllflell
within a period of dim years from the commence eat
um of , any clerk shall he placed in 'a class shove (hat
in which he is now serving, and to which lie would .not
I have attained bet for the new classification of the o re,
or for the v.‘e tortes occasioned by the reductions ow
made, and if the nainlmous salary of the Hiss tow ch
loch clerk may be promoted shooldemeeed the 'alert of
which be may at the time of prometiou be iu the aci*el