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Table shewing the RATES OF PENSION payable to the Public Officers of the Colony of Hongkong
Chief Justices and Puisne Judges who have not previously served in any other Office in the Colony. After 7 years' service, Portions of the Annual Salary of the Office. under the foregoing Minute. 18 23 Colonial Chaplains who have not previously served in any other Office in the Colony. After 10 years' service, Portions of the Annual Salary of the Office. 9 11 All other Officers returned in the Civil List, or described as Fixed Establishment in the Annual Estimates, and who are in receipt of Salaries of £230 a year and upwards. After 10 years' service, Portions of the Annual Salary of the Office. 15 25 ... ... ...( 29 )
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Enclosure C.
DRAFT.
MINUTE
THE GOVERNOR,
Amended in accordance with § 2 and § 3 of Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH'S Despatches No. 34 of 1st May 1878, and § 2-4 of No. 18 of 2nd March 1880.
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, or any Puisne Judge, 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' additional 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 Colonial Chaplain, provided that, previous to his appointment in such capacity, he shall not have served in other office in the Colony, shall be entitled, after ten years' and under eleven years' service, to pension at the rate of twenty-sixtieths of the annual salary of his office, increasing an additional sixtieth for every additional year's service, until the completion of thirty years' service, when respect of the annual allowance of forty-sixtieths may be granted, and no addition shall be made in service beyond thirty years. The Surveyor General and the Assistant Surveyor General, when debarred from private practice, shall be allowed the benefit of five additional years in regard of pension ground of professional services.
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 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 Secretary of State, be properly called upon to accept, it shall be competent to the said Secretary of State to declare, should he decline the same, that the pension of such ex-Governor shall be suspended until he shall attain the age of fifty-five years.
6. No public servant will be held to have an absolute right to compensation for past services, or to any pension under this Minute; and Government will retain power and authority to dismiss any public servant without compensation.