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 after six months 3s. 4d.; after one year 3s. 6d.; third year 3s. 9d.; fourth year 4s.; fifth year 4s. 2d.; sixth year 4s. 4d.; seventh year 4s. 6d. In cases where firemen are required to fire more than twelve years, 4s. 9d. per day. Ten hours to constitute a day in all cases. All time worked in excess of ten hours to be paid at time and a quarter."

"In conlusionconclusion [sic], your employees desire that you will kindly consider their responsible, arduous, and dangerous duties, and that you will grant the requests contained in the above programme. Should you have the beneficence to grant our requests, we can only add that it shall be our aim to do our duty to the best of our ability, and thus deserve your future approbation and confidence."