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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH MARCH, 1888.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 100.
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Tenders will be received at this Office until Noon of Friday, the 16th instant, for repairs to Sing Wong Street and Bridges Street.
For form of tender apply at this Office.
For specification and further particulars apply at the Surveyor General's Office. The Government does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th March, 1888.
ARATHOON SETH,
for the Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 101.
The following Circular Despatch and its enclosures are published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th March, 1888.
CIRCULAR.
ARATHOON SETH, for the Colonial Secretary.
DOWNING STREET,
24th January, 1888.
SIR,-Referring to my circular despatches of the 1st of February, 1887, and of the 6th of August, 1887, I have the honour to transmit to you, for information and publication in the Colony under your. government, a copy of the Superannuation Act, 1887. and of the Rules drawn up by the Treasury under Clause 6 thereof.
I have the honour to be,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
H. T. HOLLAND.
CHAPTER 67.
Au Act to amend the Superannuation Acts, 1834 and 1859; and for other
purposes.
BE
[16th September 1887.]
E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1.-(1.) Where a person employed in the civil service of the state is injured-
(a) in the actual discharge of his duty; and
(b) without his own default; and
(c) by some injury specifically attributable to the nature of his duty,
the Treasury may grant to him, or, if he dies from the injury, to his widow, his mother, if wholly dependent on him at the time of his death, and to his children, or to any of them, such gratuity or annual allowance as the Treasury may consider reasonable, and as may be permitted by the terms of a warrant under this section.
(2.) The Treasury shall forthwith after the passing of this Act frame a warrant regulating the grant of gratuities and annual allowances under this section, and the warrant so framed shall be laid before Parliament.
(3.) Provided that a gratuity under, this section shall not exceed one year's salary of the person injured, and an allowance under this section shall not, together with any superannuation allowance to which he is otherwise entitled, exceed the salary of the person injured, or three hundred pounds a year, whichever is less.
A.D. 1887.
Grant of gratuity or allowance to injured civil servant.