Governor-in-Chief L 2,000 Lieutenant-Governor 1,250 4 councillors, at 800_l_ 3,200 25 chief traders, at 300_l_ 7,500 100 clerks, at various salaries, about 10,000 ------- L23,950 ======= "The saving of 14,000_l_. per annum would soon reimburse the Company's outlay in buying up the present interests of the factors and traders. "The system of making the pay of officers (of the upper grade) dependent on the success of the business, has worked well, and might be advantageously continued, in a modified form, to be hereafter noticed. "The duties of the officers of the proposed reduced staff would be adapted to the existing distribution of the territory into departments and districts, which are as follows:-- "There are four main divisions--the Northern, Southern, Western, and Montreal Departments, roughly bounded as follows:--the 'Western' embraces all the country west of the Rocky Mountains; the 'Northern' is composed of the country east of the mountains, as far as Lake Winnipeg and Lac la Pluie, and from the American frontier to the Arctic Sea; the 'Southern' embraces the southern and eastern shores of Hudson's Bay; and the 'Montreal' extends from Lake Superior down the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Labrador. These departments are divided into districts, and in each district are several posts. The limits of districts are fixed by local peculiarities; but commonly embrace some large river, on which the various stations are planted--such, for example, as the McKenzie and the Saskatchewan. There are twenty-three districts on the east side of the mountains; to the west such subdivision of the business is now scarcely practicable, and is being abandoned. To proceed to the duties of the officers. "The Governor-in-Chief would fulfil his present large functions, and be the medium of communication between the Company and their officers in the country.