210
2.
(a)
Total Service to date of leaving
(b) Deduct total absences
(1.) 1o April 1875 to 2nd December.
Years
days 68
C
-1875 1. 188.
(11) 13. December 1877 to 74 July 1878)
3.
Period of resident service 7.
245
? 343'
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The law regulating the pensions of
the subordinate officers of the Police, which
to Mr. Batten's case is as
applies to Mr
Ordinance 9 of 1862.
follows:-
(a) §§X+XI constitute five-year periods of service in the Force, and allow a gratuity of 3 months pay, after each period of ~ five years service; or a
passage.
Inspector Batten received a passage home and out again at the expiration of his first period of five years service in 1874.
4.
(b) 8XII provides that in addition to the
gratuity an Inspector shall receive after
ten
years
service a pension of
of his
pension of one quarter
average pay for three
years, which,
years
and
have
after a further service of two 126 days would in Mr. Batten's case
been #2.40 a
a year.
The pension rules of the subordinate officers of the Police being framed
ow onore
j'at
Javourable terms than those of the Civil Servants generally, the regulation permitting
time
leave to count as service is
spent.
OFL
not applicable to Mr. Batten
Hence Mr. Batten has no
legal
5.
claim on Government, and any gratuity.
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granted to him must be given discretion of the Governor under His
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