Suggestive on 17/470. as to the charabus
ffie in
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should be carried out
I notice that
Dreams
in the Blue Book
the
Comet Honor"
is given
as one
Emoluments
?
To M. Round
In Meade
the
the frown licitor.
C-P.L·
20.Oct.
Micrate
The existing Hongkong pension does not explicitly exclude from superannuation officers who have been allowed private practice; but you know the Treasury has enforced the rule both at home & abroad in cases where it has not been explicitly laid down.
As regards Hongkong, I have looked into old papers and find that as long ago as 1862
An
refused the
Attorney General the privilege of contributing
to the superannuation fund on the ground that officers with private practice had no claim to superannuation. After the introduction of Imperial legislation of 1859, when superannuation abatements were also abolished in most of the Crown Colonies, Sir H. Robinson asked leave
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to frame rules which should in future govern all pension cases chargeable to Hongkong Funds. The Treasury agreed to this in a letter which dealt with a good many other points, and incidentally showed that
bar to superannuation
private practice
was a
Sir H. Robinson then sent home the
6628/62 draft of the existing pension minutes,
in his despatch remarked that there were 3 professional officers - the Attorney General, the Chief Medical Officer, and the Purveyor General, to whom he proposed to allow a professional addition because they had
private practice, but he argued in spite of the general Treasury rule that these Officers should have some pensions; this was supported by the C.O. (see Lord Blachford's
8938/62 minute), and agreed to by the Treasury in their reply to the Governor's despatch. Dreams reply contains nothing specific
as to the claims of any other officers in the Colony who might be allowed private practice, from which it might be inferred either that there were none, or that it was an rule that they were not entitled to
a
a claim to pension - that it certainly was not, that there
nothing to exempt excepting.
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