845A
A. 18.)
Enclosure 2
PARTICULARS of the Office now vacant at the Harbour Department.
in the Colony of Hongkong.
Second Boarding Officer
1. Duties of office, and qualifications required for their performance.
To board all ships of war and merchant vessels arriving here and to make out reports.
A knowledge of seamanship is required
2. Salary and emoluments, and whether secured by a permanent law,
Salary $1380 per annum, on the Estimates. No emoluments.
3. Other circumstances affecting the value of the office.
Free quarters
4. Nature, number, and amount of securities required, and mode of giving them.
None
5. Whether any, and if any, what provision is made from public funds for the passage from this country, or elsewhere, of the persons sent out to fill the office.
6. Acts or Ordinances making provision respecting any of the above matters, and especially respecting the permanency of the emoluments, and the particulars of the security required, with references to the sections in which such provision is made.
Hong Kong, 18th May 1856.
(signed) H. G. Thomsett,
Harbour Master