In your letter of February 23rd last you informed us that on comparing Salaries allowed to the Officers of the Woolwich Yard with those allowed to the Sheerness Officers you found that the Salaries of the Master Attendants, Master Shipwrights, Clerks of the Cheque and Clerks of the Survey were the same at both Yards, but the Storekeepers differ, the Sheerness Officer receiving one hundred pounds and the Woolwich Officer seventy pounds a year. You judge it reasonable they should be made equal, not only because the other Officers are so, but because the business is generally more at Woolwich.
We direct that cause the Salaries to be made equal and that the increase should commence at Christmas last.