Mr Mercer
一个
"The Duke of Newcastle.
No 82.
1 In closure.
Received
of Pensions.
last, on the subject
No 136 of 20th September
Acknowledging receipt His Grace's Despatch
Sr. 68/63
197
No. 120.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Minute by His Excellency the Governor respecting Pensions to the Public Servants of this Colony framed under the provisions of Ordinance No. 10 of 1862, the confirmation of which is notified in the foregoing Proclamation, is published for general information.
By Order of the Acting Governor,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th November, 1862.
MINUTE,
BY THE GOVERNOR.
W. H. ALEXANDER, Acting Colonial Secretary.
1. Under instructions from the Right Honourable the Secretary of State, His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct that the following Rules respecting Pensions to the Public Servants of this Colony be published for general information.
2. Subject to the exceptions and provisions hereinafter contained all Public Servants holding Offices named in the Civil List Ordinance, or Offices described in the Annual Estimates as the Fixed Establishment of the Colony, and drawing Salaries of Thirty Pounds a Year and upwards shall be entitled to Pensions as follows:--
To any person who shall have served Ten Years and upwards and under Eleven Years an Annual Allowance of Fifteen-sixtieths of the Annual Salary of his Office.
For Eleven Years and under Twelve Years an Annual Allowance of Sixteen-sixtieths of such Salary.
And in like manner a further addition to the Annual Allowance of One-sixtieth in respect of each additional Year of such Service until the completion of a period of Service of Thirty-five Years when the Annual Allowance of Forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any Service beyond Thirty-five Years.
3. The Chief Justice, provided he shall not have served in any other Office in the Colony, shall be entitled to a Pension after Seven Years' Service; at which time an Allowance of Three Years' addi- tional Service shall be made to him; such Pension to increase at the rate of Two Years' Service for each additional Year he serves until an Allowance of Ten Years' additional Service has been made to him: after which his Pension shall increase at the same rate only as other Officers until he shall have reached Twenty-five Years' Service when he may receive the full Allowance of Forty-sixtieths of his Annual Salary, and no addition shall be made for any Service beyond Twenty-five Years.
4. The Judge of the Summary Jurisdiction Court, and the Colonial Chaplain, provided that pre- vious to their appointments in such capacities, they shall not have served in other Offices in the Colony shall be entitled after Ten Years' and under Eleven Years' Service to Pensions at the rate of Twenty- sixtieths of the annual Salaries of their respective Offices, increasing an additional Sixtieth for every additional Year's Service, until the completion of Thirty Years' Service, when the annual allowance of Forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in respect of any Service beyond Thirty Years. In case of the elevation of any Judge of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction, who may be en- titled to the additional Five Years allowed by this clause, to the Office of Chief Justice, the Pension of such Officer upon retirement may be calculated at the rate specified in this clause.
5. Any Public Servant of the Colony who may be elevated to the Office of Governor of Hongkong shall on his retirement from that Office be entitled to the same Pension as if he had continued to hold the Office which he vacated when he was appointed Governor and (supposing him not to be Fifty-five Years of age) as if he had retired from ill-health. Provided that if there shall be offered to any such ex-Governor being under the age of Fifty-five Years any Public Office, or situation under the Crown, which having reference as well to the state of his health as to the nature of his previous Services, such ex-Governor may, in the judgment of the Lords Commissioners of H. M.'s Treasury, be properly called upon to accept; it shall be competent to the said Lords Commissioners to declare should he decline the same that the Pension of such ex-Governor shall be suspended until he shall obtain the age of Fifty-five Years,