G 327 the usual allowance towards his passage money on proceeding to England on twelve months leave of absence, some doubts arose as to whether he was entitled to the privilege. The facts are these: Mr. McKinney entered the Hongkong Police Force as a Police Constable on the 20th July, 1870. On the 1st April, 1875, he was appointed Inspector of Nuisances, retaining his status and privileges in connection with the Police Force. In July, 1875, after five years' service, he received, in lieu of passage money, the usual Police Bonus (in his case $135), equivalent to three months' pay in accordance with Ordinance 9 of 1862.
3. On the 1st December, 1898, Mr. McKinney was appointed Acting Fifth Master at the Central School. As Police Allowances and pensions are provided for separately from the Civil Service Allowances and ordinary Pensions, I thought that Mr. McKinney, having joined the Civil Service, might not be considered as having done so until he quitted the Police Force; in which case Your Lordship's Despatch No. 68 of the 2nd June, 1871, regarding Passage Allowance might have been taken as excluding him from the privilege of passage allowance. On referring these facts to the Attorney General for his opinion,
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