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INDEX INDIA AND BENGAL DESPATCHES 81 - 95 1854 Z/E/4/24

Deefholts, R., memorial from for restoration to former scale of pay

1031-1034 LXXXV - E/4/824

INDEX INDIA AND BENGAL DESPATCHES 89-90 1854-55 Z/E/4/25

Deefholts, Mr., reference re memorial regarding their pay "letter dated 25th November (no 44) 1853, transferred to the financial dept."

91 XC E/4/829

INDEX INDIA AND BENGAL DESPATCHES 95-98 1856 Z/E/4/27

Deefholts, Mr., memorial respecting retrospective effect of increase to pay negatived

1002-52 E/4/834

INDEX INDIA AND BENGAL DESPATCHES 103-105 1857 Z/E/4/29

Deefholts, Mr., memorial from negatived

787 CIII E/4/842

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INDEX INDIA AND BENGAL DESPATCHES 81 - 95 1854 Z/E/4/24

Deefholts, R., memorial from for restoration to former scale of pay

1031-1034 LXXXV - E/4/824 p.1029 214 No 7 of 1854

Bengal 22nd March

Financial Dept.

Draft Despatch,

Reply to Letter in Public Dept. dated 25th Nov.r. 1853 No 44 - Memorial from Mr R. Deefholts and other Writers in the Bengal Secretariat Offices

p. 1031 214 Bengal Financial - Letter, from, in Pub. Dept. dated 25th Nov.1853 22nd March (No 7) 1854 No 44

Transmit a memorial from Mr R. Deefholts and other Writers formerly on the old "Section" system, but now on the fixed Establishment of the Bengal Secretariat Office, praying to be restored to the scale of Pay which was assigned to them by Mr Law, the Register of the Secretariat on the abolition of the "Section Writing" system, and which scale is stated to have been subsequently much reduced.

1. We are unwilling to interfere in matters of Departmental arrangement, and especially when, as in the present case, you have not expressed any opinion on the subject of the Memorial.

2. We entertain no doubt however, that the position of the Memorialists will receive from your Government the consideration which it merits, and that in bestowing your consideration upon it, the following remarks which we made, when a similar Memorial was submitted to us in the year 1850, will have their due influence,

[Marginal note: Fin'l Letter to India Dated 10th July 1850 No 28, para 4 ]

"With regard however to the details (of the plan for the employment of the Copying Clerks on fixed salaries in lieu of Section Writers) the prayer of the Memorialists, and especially of such of them as have been for a long series of years n the Service of the Govt, appears to us to have strong claims to consideraton. Though serving in a humble capacity, and entitled to remuneration only according to the call there may be for their labor, the claim arising out of an existing position should not be overlooked. We are always unwilling to interfere with existing interests, except so far as the calls of public duty appear absolutely to require it.

We are,

Your long friends,

15 Signatories.

INDEX INDIA AND BENGAL DESPATCHES 89-90 1854-55 Z/E/4/25

Deefholts, Mr., reference re memorial regarding their pay "letter dated 25th November (no 44) 1853, transferred to the financial dept."

91 XC E/4/829

NOT LOCATED

INDEX INDIA AND BENGAL DESPATCHES 95-98 1856 Z/E/4/27

Deefholts, Mr., memorial respecting retrospective effect of increase to pay negatived

1002-52 E/4/834

Towards a memorial from Mr D. and other writers of the Bengal Secretariat praying that the difference of pay which has lately been granted to them may be allowed from the date of reduction viz. the 18th Oct.1849, instead of from the 20th May 1854, the date of receipt of the Court's Financial Despatch dated 22nd March 1854, No 7.

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We observe that the case of the parties who were formerly employed as Writers in the Bengal Secretariat Office on the Old Section System, and who when that system was abolished were retained on fixed salaries which were subsequently reduced, has received reconsideration and that it has been determined to restore their Salaries to the amount at which they were originally fixed on the 15th May 1848, the date of the change of system.

This arrangement has our approval, being in accordance with the spirit of the observations made in our Despatch in this Department dated the 22nd March 1854 No. 7. But we are not prepared to comply with the request now preferred by the Memorialists, that the higher scale of pay may have retrospective effect from the date of the reduction.

We are

Your affectionate friends

12 sig.

London 26 Feby 1856

INDEX INDIA AND BENGAL DESPATCHES 103-105 1857 Z/E/4/29

Deefholts, Mr., memorial from negatived

787 CIII E/4/842

4th Feb. 1857

We must adhere to our decision declining to permit the higher rate of pay lately sanctioned for the Writers in the Bengal Secretariat to have retrospective effect from the year 1848.